Mr. Chairman, I think it should be clearly understood that when we are expecting the Members of the Legislature to endorse the Consensus Report, the Charlottetown Consensus Report, we are asking this Legislature, based on what they can read in that report, are they prepared to endorse it. That is exactly what it is, and communities and our constituents will take our lead in saying that in the view of the Legislature, Members of this Legislature, this government, what they have read and understand to have been agreed to in the Consensus Report warrants support.
That is quite in line with Mr. Well's analogy, that when you make a deal to buy a house, you make a deal, it is based on certain terms of reference, certain terms being agreed to. Of course, the lawyers have to go off and write up your agreement in legal document, and the deal is subject to an acceptable legal text. This endorsement that we are asking the Members to support today, in no way suggests that they will also be automatically bound to support the legal text.
The legal text has to reflect clearly what we understand to be the agreement reached, and reflected, in the Consensus Report. The legal text will be dealt with in a new recommendation by this Legislature. The special committee has drafted a new recommendation to deal with the legal text, when it comes out, to make sure that the endorsement today does not mean that the legal text will automatically be accepted. Thank you.