Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, again in the public interest, I question the fact that we can take public monies to pay for opinions that are for Cabinet and then have them released in his House to potentially be used against us. In fact, we were advised that there may be litigation pending. To still proceed with this makes no sense, as I see it, in the public interest, using public dollars to pay for an opinion, then to table them and for them to possibly be used in lawsuits against this government.

I would like to know, did the Premier have advice on this before he proceeded with this? Did the deputy attorney general give advice in this matter as to whether this was appropriate or not? Again, in the public interest, we are expending public dollars to pay for the opinions that were received and now tabled in this House.

Mr. Speaker, we went through a process and most Members had the opportunity when they were speaking to the committee motion, and in the House, the report, and the motions/recommendations, all Members had an opportunity at that time to do so and they did so and quite strongly, I might add. In fact, at that time, they had an opportunity to move forward with those documents.

Why at this late date and why in this manner, especially when we were all advised of the possible pending litigation out there? It does not make sense that we would be using public dollars to possibly be used against our own government. I think this needs to be reviewed and these documents, I believe, should be pulled. Thank you.