Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish the Members would have more of an open heart and understanding of the whole process that we go through from the planning process, business plans, where a department comes in and presents the facts. There is $5 million for a highway project and these are the projects. There are 23 projects. There is going to be a bridge project, there is going to be a culvert project, there is a widening project, there is a crushing project, every one of those projects is known within a committee.

We are aware of those projects. If those projects are acknowledged to ourselves as Members on this side of the House through the public review process, the business planning process, we are aware that there were supposed to be 23 projects and now there are 21.

If that can happen to me, any of the other ridings that are affected by highways, Highway No. 3, Highway No. 8, Highway No. 1, a similar process could be going on right now where we are not even involved. We agreed to the main estimates based on the dollar item, but the dollar item is based on a number of projects within that dollar item.

In the case of the $5 million for the Dempster Highway, there were 23 projects. There was a list given and presented to Members through the business planning process. We are all aware of it, so for us to say that we were not aware of it is not true. For a department to stand there and say, "Well, sorry, it is $5 million I am going to put into a highway system and I can do whatever I like with that $5 million. If I want to build a bridge over the Peel River, go for it, because I will support it any day, but that is a $5 million project."

In that case, the department can go ahead and do it without telling the Member for Inuvik or any other Member who may be affected that a capital project was moved from one area to the other. It is clear from the Minister's letter. He specifically states projects in his letter four times. One referring to the reconstruction project on the Campbell Creek bridge, and those projects that were funded on the Dempster Highway. It says "these projects". It does not say the project. It says "these projects".

I think it is clear that they are trying to fluff the issue by saying any adjustment to a capital project which significantly affects the scope of the work, and it says "any adjustment to a capital project which significantly affects the scope of the work." It has affected the scope of the work. There are two projects where the Minister stated that $950,000 has been moved from the area on the Dempster Highway from the south side of the Dempster to the north side of the Dempster, $950,000.

The majority of that work is in my riding and it has now been moved to the Inuvik area. I think that for us to state that we are not aware of projects in general, we are aware. Using Highway No. 3 for instance, there is a widening project going on at one end of the thing. There is a bunch of work planned for the Ingraham Trail. There are all these projects which we debated, discussed and spoke on in the business planning process.

If we can state, going out of the planning process, approving an amount of money, regardless if it is $5 million or $55 million, those dollars were earmarked for specific projects within the scope of those moneys.

Again, I would like to ask my colleagues to support me on this motion because I believe a violation has taken place. If we do not stand up for this now...This was a major issue in the 13th Assembly. There was a motion passed with regard to the whole area of budget adjustments. Again, we are back in the 14th Assembly, debating the same thing where that side of the House is expending monies anyway they wish without informing any Members on this side of the House. With that, I ask for your support, colleagues, because if this can happen to me, it can happen to you.