Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, over the past couple of weeks we have had chances in the committees, as MLAs, to review the adjustments to the 1996-97 Capital Budget. It has caused some areas of concern. The money and slippage if a project has been deferred or cancelled, or a deferred or cancelled project. My understanding would be that that money would go back into our deficit reduction strategy. It is very hard, and it is not palatable for me to be able to sit here and talk about cuts and reductions, and senior citizens subsidy cuts, when I see a million dollars being re-directed to a rec centre, when, for example, in my case, mine was cut last year. That is unacceptable.

Our basic concerns should be for the primary facilities of the Northwest Territories and those infrastructures that keep health, mind, soul and body together. I do not think a rec centre fits into that category. The whole idea of this concept was we had an open government, an open policy in the last eleven months. The door came down between the Cabinet and the Executive. And with the new committee structure, the ordinary MLAs would have a better opportunity to have a say and input into the decision-making process. As Mr. Krutko and Mr. Miltenberger have articulated earlier, this new process seems to be somewhat lacking at the present time. I, too, will be asking some questions to the appropriate Ministers on why, if and when, this has happened, and is it going to happen again in the future. Because if it is, then the S.S. Titanic is going down and we are re-arranging deck chairs. It is not acceptable. Thank you Mr. Chairman.