Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I mentioned in my Member's statement, we were well aware that we have had to get into the business of grumbling on behalf of the people and trying to put budgets in place in a short amount of time. We have heard it many times from across the floor, the difficult working conditions Ministers are in to try and put this together and the tiredness they have felt. But Mr. Speaker, as an Ordinary Member, I feel I need to be able to do my job. To do my job, I need accuracy in the figures in the proposals put before me.
Mr. Speaker, for much of the interim process we were given a document to do our work and review it with departments. It is bad enough that we do not have a lot of time to go through that process and get into a lot of detail. What is even worse is that I have come to find out through the processes that there are some huge projects and changes in the plan that were not at all identified. It was not until questioning in this House that we were able to find out that information.
I would like to first of all thank the Finance Minister for taking it upon himself to table document 39-14(2), yesterday in this House, on the 2000-2001 Capital Plan Comparison. In the short time I have had to do my review, Mr. Speaker, I have found some differences within departments; Municipal and Community Affairs, Public Works and Services, Health and Social Services, Justice, Education, Culture and Employment, Transportation. Some numbers are small, but there are some major changes. We have just passed an interim budget based on a certain set of numbers. I would like to know from the Finance Minister, is this document that is being tabled the document we are going by, or it is the interim appropriation we are going to go by? Thank you.