Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would just like to bring the attention, first of all, of all Members in the interest of time, we have ten hours until midnight. As my colleague next to me said, we will turn into pumpkins by that time. But we do have five Ministers to review after this particular department. I just want to bring that to the Members' attention because we do have a lot of work ahead of us. Dealing with my questions, Mr. Chairman, we have been dealing with the Agenda for Change. That agenda has listed ten priorities. I will refer to the first three. One was to secure our financial future. Two was to improve social conditions, and three was to improve our economic conditions. I understand that the government has indicated that they do wish to pare that down and to concentrate on three particular areas which I think is essential and necessary. First of all, dealing with the first item on that Agenda for Change and that was, securing our financial future. I think that we have in a sense done that by eliminating the deficit, but we do have a problem with number three, improving our economic conditions. The fact that we achieved our financial security resulted in the capital budget being cut by $60 million, and a lot of employees being laid off by this government.
Now that has created a certain amount of unemployment. Additionally the cut in the capital budget has resulted in the loss of a lot of jobs in the construction industry. According to the NWT Construction Association that was around the 900 job level. In dealing with the allocation of funds for this government, it has been a necessity because of forced growth to keep the funds in the social envelope area and allocate more funds because of forced growth. But the two departments, Department of Transportation and the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development have been trimmed, and they have no funds for job creation. I think I am asking an overall question here of the Minister. I think he is aware of my concerns with where we are going with the social problems. We have and we cannot continue that way. I would like to get the Minister to speak on it for a minute or two because we need to readjust ourselves here in the territories in a different direction or we are headed for real trouble. Perhaps, the Minister could speak on that for me.