It is what we can afford. Mr. Speaker, perhaps I could try to answer it this way. We are now in a position in which we were not before. For a number of years we could quantifiably define through the Hay Associates Group, what we believe is a defendable position as it relates to pay equity and the job evaluation that was done and identify the costs associated with that.

I have said since this artless debate started, we are projecting a $25 million expenditure on the retroactivity side and a $9 million expenditure on the ongoing side, which should reach an arrangement that is affordable. That is what we can do and what we can fund by the prudent management of this government and its fiscal resources. Anything beyond that and certainly anything at the level in which our partners in the process, the UNW, are suggesting anywhere between $100 million to $250 million, depending on what you hear out there, simply is not affordable. What we are trying to say to everybody is we want to come forward with a negotiated arrangement that this territory can afford to pay for, that will solve this issue so that the two new governments do not inherit it on April 1, 1999. I think it would be fair to say, for all my colleagues around this table and the public at large, I do not think the government can sustain any further job loss or downsizing of programs and services we deliver to the people we represent. This issue has been going on for ten years. This Finance Minister, at least, has made the offer to try and solve the problem and has extended a hand of solving and negotiate a settlement, $25 million in retroactivity, $9 million in ongoing is an affordable settlement. That is affordable.

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