Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this government and Legislative Assembly spends millions of dollars on travel, whether it's travel used for vacation travel allowance, medical travel or duty travel.

Mr. Speaker, the airline tickets purchased by this government allow for the ticket-holders to take advantage of receiving Canadian Plus points through Canadian Airlines, or Aeroplan points through Air Canada.

Mr. Speaker, currently, the federal government does not allow for such a perk, and many other governments across the country refrain from allowing individuals to take advantage of the access to travel points. Mr. Speaker, however, the federal government, I understand, allows each department to obtain a corporate card for their holder on behalf of the appropriate department which these funds come out of. Therefore, if points are claimed, they go back to the appropriate department. The theory is that when the department has enough points on their corporate account, they can save funds and obtain a ticket for purposes of duty travel which then results in a saving of spending unnecessary funds.

Mr. Speaker, this makes good fiscal and responsible financial spending on the federal government's part. However, the practice is not considered by our current government and a policy at this time is not even being developed; although, Mr. Speaker, I think it is time for this government to consider development of such a policy and also this Legislative Assembly. Mr. Speaker, we are at a time where our fiscal dollars must be used in the most efficient manner and this will result in a phenomenal savings which will be achieved by departments if a policy were developed to allow for creation of a corporate departmental account for travel purposes.

Mr. Speaker, I intend to bring forth a motion to address this issue so each department would be allowed to create a corporate departmental account for travel purposes which would be used as a measure for saving dollars for our government overall. Thank you.