Thank you Mr. Speaker. Honourable members. I would like to send greetings back home to my wife and children. Mr. Speaker, we heard
the talk today on changing the way this government does business. As we look back on our first year, we started out very eager to make changes. A large majority of us agreed this Government cannot do business as it has in the past. This Government was going to become more efficient and effective as MLAs and departments. So we set out to make a difference, a positive difference, and as these changes have been occurring, we have been able to get feedback from the communities.
Mr. Speaker, some of the feedback is not positive. There are people in our constituencies saying we have no plan. That we are continuing down a path that is not marked out, that our cart is without a horse. Mr. Speaker, as we look at the business plans for '97-'98 we need to look at exactly what is effective and what is efficient. We need to make this more than a budget cutting exercise. We need to ask - has the business plan for '96-'97 achieved effectiveness and efficiency, and we need to be asking in the upcoming business plans - will this achieve effectiveness and efficiency? I know that Mr. Speaker, I will be asking the Ministers in the committee meetings I attend if the plans they are putting before me are going to achieve effectiveness and efficiency. Thank you.