Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to talk about what seems to be becoming a common occurrence in this House, which is reflective on processes like party politics that we see in other jurisdictions. Mr. Speaker, when Members from this side of the House start naying requests to ask questions in the House because they are afraid we might go down a road that might jeopardize, or we do not want to go down that road again, you have to start wondering what kind of message are we sending to the people of the Northwest Territories.

My reason for asking to go back to item 6 was to ask the Minister about the looming deficit we are about to face. Mr. Speaker, my understanding of the deficit we are about to face is that it is similar to that faced by the 13th Assembly. We all know what the 13th Assembly had to do to address those budget shortcomings.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to know if the projects and processes, programs and services, dollars that are identified in our business plans today would survive the mitigating consideration that the Cabinet will be looking at.

Mr. Speaker, we work long and hard to put our issues and the needs of our constituents in the business plans. I would like assurances from Cabinet and the Minister of Finance that what is in the business plans will continue on to fruition, because those things that are in the business plans are out there in our communities. People expect that. That is what a responsible government should be doing, not being evasive of how much money this government is in the hole on. That just speaks to the type of government that we seem to be having today.

Lack of confidence in our government is felt everywhere in the Territories. When we start getting restricted from this side of the House to address that lack of confidence felt by our constituents we should ask the question why, and what do we have to do to fix that?

Mr. Speaker, on Monday there was a vote of confidence in the Premier. I was not here. Everybody in this House knows why. I felt like I had a responsibility under the consensus government style of government to assist my colleague Mr. Antoine in giving certainty that his vote would not matter when I have to take my vote to address an issue that is of great concern to the people of the Northwest Territories, which is the Kyoto Agreement.

We do not need to be doing that kind of stuff, Mr. Speaker. We should not have to cancel each other's votes out to address the work that is required of this government. We will be voting on a motion later and I am pretty sure the vote is going to be similar. With Mr. Antoine and myself back, it will be 11 to 7 with Mr. Lafferty in his regular chair. If that is the case, Mr. Speaker, that is not responsible government. People say that politics is numbers, but accountability should be a number one priority. The people in the Northwest Territories should feel comfortable that their elected leaders, especially those in Cabinet, have the confidence of the people that they represent.

We will be voting on that, but the main reason I wanted to go back to this item was to address that issue of how we do business in here. I never asked to go back to an item before, and when I did I have been nayed because there are some worries there. Tomorrow is our last day in the House. I hope the Minister would answer my question on how...