Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It has become apparent that Members on the other side had decided yesterday amongst themselves that they were going to come away today with a specific plan of action, no matter what was said in question period. Mr. Speaker, I am kind of thrown a bit by this because I took the time during question period to assure Members that before this Cabinet took any initiative to create any new institution, to allocate new resources, particularly after receiving a very strong message in the last two Sessions of no more growth in Yellowknife, no more growth in headquarters, that we are now entertaining a motion to create a Public Service Commission.
A commission that is somehow going to help us meet all of our goals and aspirations in hiring more northern people, more aboriginal people in management, more women in management, and that the best way to do it is by setting up an independent body, giving up our power and authority to an independent board that we have no idea of how it is going to be structured or set up and mandated, that that is the way to resolve all the problems that we have discussed so far.
Mr. Speaker, that is only part of my concern. My greater concern is, are Members of the Legislature on the other side going to start dictating to the Executive what we should do without any discussion? What happened to this spirit of consensus? We offered to include it in the discussion in September. I think, it is a very valid assertion that the Members have made, that we should look at a Public Service Commission. We have offered to do that, we have agreed to do that. I thought there was some acceptance of that suggestion.
Now you are going to pre-empt the discussion in the fall, I guess. In accepting this motion, you would say you do not need to discuss it anymore, you just want to tell us what to do. It is a concern because it is not in keeping with the spirit of consensus, for the Members on the other side to meet by themselves and then unilaterally impose direction on this Cabinet without at least allowing some of us to have some discussion with Members about the merits of the motions and directions that they propose. We will not be voting on this motion. Thank you.