Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the comments. The Member started out by saying he wanted to make it absolutely clear he is supporting the objectives. I am like Little Red Riding Hood, wondering are you sure you are the granny because everything he said since then makes it difficult for me to see where it follows. I appreciate the Member needs to get these comments on the record. There are questions which need to be answered. I know we are not dealing with the entire body of government employees here. We are dealing with about 1,400 employees. I still say that it is more unfair to the rest of the government employees, the public and to this government to leave things as they are. It is absolutely essential, after all these years, to make the commitment to follow-through on this initiative. We are not going to be able to answer all the questions the Members may have. We have not removed all the rocks and boulders from this level playing field we are trying to create, but it is going to be created. We cannot wait until we think out everything perfectly in this imperfect world. I know what is fair is that we initiate this work and we do it now. It will be a strategy that is going to create better use of resource and some economic incentives for people at the community level for corporations and create more certainty for individual government employees.
There is no way we can plan to the point where there is going to be 100 per cent satisfaction for each Member of this Legislature. We are not going to give complete 100 per cent satisfaction to the unions, to each tenant and government employees across this country, nor to the different businesses that have opinions about the impact of this strategy. As I said, my sense is that we have generally agreed on the basic objectives of this strategy. We are at a point where we are trying to decide what changes should be made to the implementation of this strategy that would meet with the demands of the Members of this Legislature.
We know there has not been consultation with each tenant. We know other initiatives in the past and contemplations by previous governments to tackle this rather difficult issue has lead previous governments to sit back and defer this issue because of its monstrous implications and incredibly complex organizing of information which has to be undertaken. Politically, it was just not considered astute to tackle it previously. We know and we all accept the fiscal condition of this government is such that we have no choice at this time. I think it is politically understood this is the way to go and we are merely trying to find some ways to fine tune the strategies so we can get on with it. Thank you.