Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to point out that if in fact the Member for Hay River South had let the process run its course, the conflict exercise would have been finished months ago.

What in fact has happened is that there has been every legal obstacle and every legal challenge possible to put in the way of the Legislature in terms of resolving what should have been, as everybody thinks it is going to be, a straight-ahead issue. Having pulled that very expensive trigger, knowing full well with the experience the Member has in conflict situations, that it is very expensive. Having pulled the trigger, she backs away from the table, and now we hear the excuse of money for not carrying further to deal with the issues, the very serious issues that have been put before us and that we are now aware of.

It is interesting to hear the Premier ask of the committee things in terms of certainty in terms of budget, in terms of what they want to do. Things he cannot deliver as Premier of this government. We will have a budget and we end up with the biggest supps in legislative history a few weeks later. The Premier asks for absolute certainty, something he cannot provide in his best day, and none of us can.

Mr. Chairman, there are very clearly some moral and ethical issues and questions on the table for this Legislature. It is interesting to hear the debate on the way in which we come up with all sorts of excuses for inactivity to avoid looking at those particular issues.

We want somebody else to come forward, even though we know that issues are there to be dealt with. I have heard it mentioned around this table. We want someone else to come forward from outside this Legislature to lay another complaint so that we can deal with issues we know are there. It makes it seem that we are incapable, as a Legislature, of doing the work that is necessary to deal with issues that we know clearly are there.

Regardless of how the vote goes, we have to live with those results, but it is unfortunate that we want to avoid scrutiny of the activities of some of the Cabinet Members and some of the people involved in this process. The issues need to be dealt with. I would hope that this Legislature would be the body, through a committee, to in fact take care of that very critical business, to get it done. I am confident that we as a committee, if in fact we were given authority to deal with that issue within the time frames -- because the process will be different. There will only be the committee of operation and it will not be a case of everybody being lawyered up anymore. Thank you.