Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I always make great speeches. What we are trying to conclude right now is the collective bargaining process. As I indicated in my emergency statement today, the UNW needs some more time to evaluate the Hay Plan Job Evaluation System or go back to the table in early December with the mediator. Hopefully, we can get that cleared up. My preference would be now, as it was then and will be in the future, that the UNW will come to their senses, sit down with us and negotiate pay equity. But, I have taken it off the table because that was what some people requested, some Members in this House asked me to do and that was what the UNW has asked. We have done what we have been asked.
My preference would be to negotiate the settlement. Again, to put money into the hands of our employees. I suggest to you today that the agenda on pay equity is not being driven by northern peoples, it is clearly been driven by PSAC out of Ottawa who has a far larger agenda with the federal government. The tragedy of it is, our employees do not get that money that rightly belongs to them that we have in the budget.