Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to commend the Premier on his recent statement that he is going to table the paper regarding the amalgamation of Transportation, Housing Corporation, Public Services into the Legislative Assembly for public debate.

I just wanted to mention that there seems to be a little bit of reorganizing of history here in this paper. The Premier indicated that the 12th Assembly recognized changes needed so they began redesigning and restructuring Government and then the process reorganized departments. That, when this Assembly took office last fall we all made a commitment to continue that process. He indicated that our first step was altering the creation of the Department of Resources, Wildlife, and Economic Development. Next step, was the dismantling of the Department of Safety and Public Services. He forgot to mention the dismantling of Personnel, but he mentioned that he also continued that the consolidation of our infrastructure departments will complete the process of organizational reform.

Mr. Speaker, I feel that we as MLA's were taken advantage of, because these things did go through the committees, and we all felt that at some point we will all have our say and agree to, or say nay, to these things, but that did not happen, and I take a strong exception when I see, that it says here, that we all made a commitment to continue that process and it lays out these things which I never agreed to. Thank you.

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