Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That is the other concern I have. A lot of these plans and initiatives are activated in the life of this cycle, where we have two more years to go. You are talking about something becoming a reality, in this case, five years down the road. With new governments and new social issues and problems we see as legislators, we have a deficit situation and the case where the government has to review its priorities. Something that is long term usually does not see the light of day or it is going through a study or review. A lot of the studies and reviews by this government, a lot of money was spent. Consultants and lawyers made a lot of good dough on this review but at the end of it all, it does not bear any efforts to implement these studies.

From someone who has had to deal with social problems in our communities, you cannot cut it in regards to selling us on something when we know that money could be spent better with regard to helping with the day-to-day problems in the Northwest Territories and dealing with people problems. The infrastructure in a lot of our communities could probably use a lot of these dollars.

My view is that it is a great idea but if we are doing something that is going to exceed the life of this Assembly, we should try to implement things we know we can implement within the time frame that we have. We should cut back on the studies, knowing they are not getting us anywhere.

It is a great idea but the timing is just not right. I would like to know why we are spending money on these studies and reviews, knowing it is just going to continue to cost us more money. We do have to bear the financial light we are under right now. We realize that a lot of these mega-projects, as we know it, especially as the Government of the Northwest Territories, where we depend on our resources from Ottawa, probably will not bear fruit from this government because we cannot afford to establish a couple of billion-dollar projects as we are looking at here.