Mr. Speaker. There is a great deal of concern with respect to the addiction side of gambling and VLTs. It is prudent of me to say that out loud. What I am

prepared to do is, I know we did some other work in the past, in the previous legislature, I will get that information and share it with the Members. If there is broad-based support for any work to be done in that, then I would give that, assuming there would be broad-based support, some direction given to this House, I would give that some consideration. But in fairness to my colleague, I think it is important to make him aware, which I am sure he is, that for example, right now in Alberta and Nova Scotia, there is a great deal of debate going on about the merits of VLTs and the impact it is having on the social end of things, and is the net return, for example, as sufficient as people think it is. Last night, for example, in the National, for those of you that watch the news, there was some discussion on the Saskatchewan casino and they had projected it was going to be x-million dollars. In fact it did not generate the revenue that they want.

I would say to you that we should be cautious on this issue. It would be fair to say it would be politically sensitive, and I am sure my colleague knows that. But I will gather what has been done before and provide it to him and others and look forward to any further action of direction being given by this House. Thank you.