Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to start off by saying that I take offence against the Members who say we have abused the power that was given to us because we did not. To condone these kinds of actions and to keep it out of the public is a cover-up. I have to say that I have lost my confidence in not only a few Ministers but more today because of your actions of what they have said today and of Members that support this. We are dealing with something that the public should know.

I was the deciding vote. I said the public has the right to know and that is what we set out to do. However, some Members feel that we abused our powers. I did not look at it like that when I became a member of the committee. I thought I would be the one that would be fair and be the one to be deciding. No one here except the committee knows what went on in our meetings, how we decided on all the issues that are here. They were not all just thrown on there and rubber-stamped. Decisions had to be made, how to word it -- everything that was put down here took a lot of decisions to do it.

It was said that we were making decisions on the go at 1:30 a.m. Of course, because we took the time to do it. We sacrificed our time. I sacrificed a whole summer. I had to make decisions on where I should be because of this committee. For someone to say that I abused my power, I did not think I had power. I was there to look into it and to deal with it as fairly as possible. For any Minister to condone this has lost my confidence.

I think any Member that condones this has to answer to the constituents in the next election. From this day on, I think that we have enough days in the session here that maybe some other Ministers should be asked if they should be Ministers.

I cannot sit back and have somebody say to me that I abused the power. It does not sit right with me. We are here to represent the whole Northwest Territories. We tried to be fair to everyone and we were. Somebody said at the early start of this committee that it was a witch hunt. They can think what they want. Maybe they are used to that. I was not. I was a new Member.

In fact, Mr. Roland said we did everything that we could. We were fair and all that I have to say now is -- and I said it before -- if you put something in the book and close the page, it is a cover-up. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.