Mr. Chairman, one of the realities, the tough realities of life and business and government is that mistakes happen, things go wrong. Some of them are true, horrific disasters, others are just little touch-up jobs. Regardless, mistakes happen. The real test of our commitment and our integrity and the values that we have to ourselves and to our families, to our colleagues, to our communities is how we manage the situation when things go wrong.

It is the skill and the ability and the tools that we bring to bear in fixing or repairing those mistakes. I think that is how we are really judged and how we can measure ourselves.

I was a supporter a few months ago of extending the mandate of this committee to seek out the facts. I was not satisfied that we had enough information about some of the circumstances, what had happened, subsequent to the problem that Mrs. Groenewegen had, namely the difficulty, the really inconsequential difficulty of not cleaning up some paperwork on a corporate registry.

I had hoped that when the mandate of the committee was renewed and extended, that their work would be -- would come out in a plain language, a plain talk, easily accessible process and again, examination of the three central questions that we asked the committee to look at.

Since then, of course, I have learned that was a very naïve expectation on my part. In fact, it turned out to be not at all a plain talk, a plain language and accessible process.

It was naïve of me, I guess, to expect that when jobs and careers and professions and integrity was to be put in the glare and the spotlight of the media, of the Legislative Assembly process, that the committee was compelled to become involved and enmeshed in the very complex, infinitely complex world of legal wrangling that went on.

In that process, on the occasions that I took to watch what was going on, it caused me discomfort, Mr. Chairman, to see the tone and the calibre of discussion and discourse that was going on in a different part of this building.

I would be ashamed and embarrassed to have the kind of things and the tone that was used in some of those discussions used in this part of the Assembly. As I say, it distressed me that it was going on in another part of this building.

Be that as it may, I want to say to the committee that I believe they did strive with honesty and with energy to fulfil the mandate that was given to them.

I do feel that I am better informed. I will not go so far as to say I am fully informed but I am much better informed and I do feel, on the basis of what has been presented, ready to engage in a discussion of the recommendations. I also congratulate the committee for delivering clear and especially unambiguous recommendations. I think it could have been very easy for the committee to have skirted or gone around the number of the tasks and the questions that were before it, but the committee did not. They are clear recommendations. That is not to say I am in agreement with all of them but I do salute them for delivering, I think, largely a good product in the task that was assigned.

Mr. Chairman, as you said a few moments ago when you were speaking as a member of committee, that time is something that we have to recognize as one of the ingredients in arriving at a way to resolve this. Time is a very good management tool.

It does come down for the Assembly and for the constituents, a matter of rebuilding, re-establishing a trust in the integrity of this institution. There is no magic, instant fix in what has transpired. I will look forward to the discussion and hopefully be able to contribute to it when we do get to our recommendations point by point. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.