Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I speak now only because I asked for the time last Friday for us to consider what is before us and consult if we need. I asked that we do this over the weekend. It seems that we all did make use of this time.
Mr. Chairman, in contacting my constituents I have to remind the Assembly here that I do not have the option of calling a meeting, going to visit my constituents over the weekend. It all has to be done by phone, and a lot of times when you finally talk to them they are not really fully aware of what is really going on up here. They remind me it is 800 miles away and that they are not the person on the spot.
They say they have put a lot of trust in their representatives, be it me or anybody else I suppose, and I would like to say one thing that none of my constituents were happy with what they heard was going on as far as the Auditor General report was concerned. None of them, but no one asked me to resign if I support the Premier. No one suggested I resign if I do not support the Premier.
What they said and made clear was, I am here, not them. I have to make a decision based on what I had before me, the information I have and what I believe is in the best interests of my riding and the Territory. That is what I intend to do, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.