Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would just like to state that like a lot of Members here, I find it very inconvenient, kind of heartbreaking in the way that we are caught up in this kind of issue again. It is taking up an awful lot of our valuable time.

I know the public perception of the last Assembly and what transpired there, the amount of time and money that was spent. In some people's minds, it was very well justified. In others, there were a lot of people who thought there was no conclusion to things that happened in the last Assembly.

I think the issue that came forward here was a non-issue to begin with, or a very light issue that could have been dealt with in different ways. I think there may have been mistakes made along the way in how everything was handled.

I know that as a Member of this Assembly, we are going to be looked at, myself included, in how we deal with it, the decisions that we make on it. Inevitably, I think it is going to come right back here to this House for the Members to make some decisions. We will be watched.

For my part, I have to speak on behalf of the people who elected me and put me here, what I have been hearing from those people since this has come to light. We all know how hard it is to get money to deal with the problems that the people are having out there, and when they see us spending huge amounts of money trying to solve our own problems and allegations, that does not sit well with a lot of people.

I know what has happened has cast a light and will continue to do so on this Assembly. As we have seen earlier today, it has already taken its toll. I cannot overlook the fact, and it has been mentioned here today, that a cloud is cast over the Conflict of Interest Commissioner. I think that is very much a case that is very much alive until it is dealt with in one way or another.

I have been wondering all along on this, regardless of how this special committee and what decisions it made on that charge of bias, who is going to be the winner and who is going to be the loser. I still see any process that we use from here as to who is going to be a winner and who is going to be a loser. I do not think there are any. I think we are all losers by the whole process that has taken place in what we are involved in right now.

I know that we stand in Caucus and every time we sit down to try and find a couple of dates, a weekend, a week, to do things, we are all tied up. We are tied up in committee meetings. We are tied up in one committee or another or doing business plan reviews. That is one thing that comes to mind when I think of the special committee going on to do this. It is another thing they are tasked with. That would be the only reason I would prefer an outside person to look at the whole thing and come back and report to us, because we will have to make decisions along the way somewhere.

The fact that the charges have been dropped...I think it is hard to say something like that and then expect it just goes away. I again go back to the cloud that is hanging over the Conflict of Interest Commissioner and her ability to do her job in the future.

I do not think that the issue is dead, by any means. I do have a problem as well with the paragraph if the special committee did go on, anything that was brought up could lead to further and further investigation and on and on it goes.

For the people I represent, I would have to say that they think there has been enough money spent in this process and the quicker we can bring it to a close and get on with the business of governing and trying to better the lives of the people of the Territories, the better off we are.

I guess we have to find a way to bring some closure to these issues. Then we have not really come to what the original issue was and that is the conflict of interest brought against the Honourable Jane Groenewegen. We are simply trying to decide who is going to deal with that issue. I would have to say, on behalf of my residents, that we have gone far enough with it. We have to get somebody who, if there are other problems, somebody has to bring those problems forward and then we will have to have them looked at. I do believe that it has to be somebody other than the Board of Management, because it has to be somebody who will report back to this Assembly.

In my own mind, I think the best way to do that is with an outside person, whether it be a judge or whatever, but that is the way I feel it should go. Ultimately, it will come back to us to decide, to be our own judges. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.