Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I welcome the question today, because it permits me the opportunity to express my diminishing tolerance, if you want, Mr. Speaker, for being subjected to this kind of groundless innuendo from the UNW. If the hoax to send the Housing Corporation job description, was not embarrassing enough for the UNW, materials released last week confirmed that there are those within that organization who prefer fiction to fact. I would say that they utilized the Oliver Stone approach, that one should never allow facts to get in the way of or entertaining conspiracy theory. It is regrettable, Mr. Speaker, that the media are only willing to be parties to this train which needlessly and recklessly damages the reputation of people committed to serving the public

interests. Although, I recognize that one has to have thick skin in politics, Mr. Speaker, there is a threshold point where one has no choice but to look at other forms to find a remedy from the unsubstantiated rumour and thinly-veiled innuendo. I want to inform the leadership of the UNW and I want to be clear today, Jackie Simpson, Bob Robertson, Dave Talbot, I am now at that point. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.