Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Public Service Commission in the Yukon is the closest one that is in existence, and so I recall the motion that was moved by Members asked for a Public Service Commission.
While the name means many things, the motion does not define what it is. So, in the absence of it, we just looked at the budget of the Public Service Commission, which is what it is called in the Yukon. If I recall, the operating budget of it is between $7 million and $8 million a year.
It may do many great things, and it may be doing many great things in the Yukon. We have asked to have the Yukon Government share that with us, and we will bring that to the Members in Inuvik. There will be research done to look at the many forums that a Public Service Commission takes, because it may very well be that a Public Service Commission will do all those things that we will want to have done.
So the decision will be made after some good discussion by Members in Inuvik. There is work to be done, and I think the Member points out that he has learned, personally that people out there have an inherent distrust of government and politicians. I have never shared that view at all, and I have been through many more years in public service than the Member has.
The people that I served and the public that I have engaged in have had disappointing periods in our history of our government, but I can never say that there has been and that there is an inherent distrust of politicians and government in our public. I do not think I am so naive and oblivious to it that I have missed that.
I think it may very well be that as we sit in office, the public may grow weary of us. They may feel that we are not delivering on the things that we said we were going to, but that is not distrust. That is disappointment. Thank you.