Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was not going to comment on this. I am not going to comment on each of the recommendations because I was a member of the committee. I have, like other members, thought very deeply about all of the issues, considered all of the information very seriously, and my views are reflected in the recommendations.

This has not been an easy time at all for any of us. I do not think any of us took it lightly. We did put in a lot of hours because of the seriousness of what we were dealing with. Particularly as a Cabinet Minister, I have to say that yes, it did disrupt our activity, our relationships, our ability to do our jobs in other fronts.

When we were first here, we all signed an oath. That to me is probably one of the most, if not the most, important thing that we did here. We signed an oath. It is not something we just hang on the wall and forget about for the next four years. I take it very seriously.

When there is an alleged violation of any part of the oath, then that to me is probably the most serious accusation or allegation that we can possibly face.

The one point I want to make, because it was made by another Member, that somehow this is a waste of our time, a waste of our money. I do not agree with that at all because to me, if we do not maintain the integrity of this House, we do not maintain the standards of government, and I am not just talking about the government in the sense of Cabinet but us as a whole government, as an Assembly. If we do not maintain that, then everything else becomes questionable and that is so basic to our role here that we can never think of that, in my view, as being a waste of time. We must deal with that if there are questions that deal with the integrity and the standard of this government because everything else rests on that.

It is not a waste of money. It is not what people elected us to do though and we all wish that we were not in this kind of situation, that we did not have to deal with these kinds of matters. I am sure the public feel that way as well. We should not be spending time doing this. We should be dealing with the programs, with the needs that people have out there, the things that we were elected to deliver on, not this.

I, like Mr. Delorey, feel that when we do run into these things, then we have to face them head on and we have to deal with them very thoroughly. You cannot push them aside and say we are too busy doing some other programs and we just simply cannot take the time to deal with it and deal with it clearly. It is so fundamental to our whole purpose.

Finally, my last comment is I do not know the importance of whether we are quasi-judicial or not, or exactly what the implications of that are, but all I can say is we did as a committee look at the facts, looked at the facts as thoroughly as we possibly could. All I can say to the other Members who were not part of the committee but have the report is whatever decisions or thoughts you have on the recommendations, look at the facts. Thank you.