Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, I want to reinforce my comments yesterday and state that I will not support this bill. It is very hard to consider such a decision. When you look at the surplus that is in this plan and look at the state that my communities are in, it really makes it an easy decision on my part.

We saw this year a small injection in terms of housing capital put into the North, around $7 million, and it has resulted in 300 new units in the Northwest Territories. We start looking at a surplus of $8 million in this plan, I can see some good ways to spend it.

I do not believe, and yesterday I said that in my opinion, we should terminate all supplementary pensions, because as long as there are people getting a supplementary pension from this government, it will continue to plague us. It will never go away. There will always be people who get elected in, whether it is this Assembly, the 15th Assembly, the 16th Assembly, whenever, that will look back and see some people collecting a benefit, a pension, and the grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence, and them saying "Why not me?"

I cannot support it. I will not support it. I will not be supporting any of the many amendments that are out there. I believe some of these amendments are pressure tactics to be used against some of us voting against it. I do not appreciate that. I think we should be allowed to vote freely on this. Cabinet has been given that freedom by the Premier and we all deserve that right.

That is my position on it and I do not plan to change it. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.