Thank you very much. I thought I was being ordered...
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...ordered out even before I've said anything. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Seeing as this is going to be a recorded vote, I just wanted to state my position on this. I will be voting along with Mr. Braden against this bill in protest for some of the items that are in this bill. Mr. Speaker, I just want to state very strongly that I don't want to impute motive on anything, but I really think the Members on that side are taking it for granted that we will just pass and we will stamp this supplementary bill because we always have. I don't think there were any in history where the supplementary budget bill was defeated. Certainly we wouldn't want that to happen, but at the same time I think it's really important that the government understands that this is a consensus government and that means that we should all have a say in how we spend money and how we do our policies and law-making. The last time we met
as an Assembly was in June. In July, we don't usually have meetings, but through the end of August and September we had committee meetings, so there was lots of time to advise us on some of the items, especially on the airport spending.
Mr. Speaker, all through the summer, people out there were telling us about what was going on in this bill before we were privy to this. I don't think that is fair. There is a lot of money being spent and we should have a say in that.
I have made my objections known clearly about another spending item on this bill and that has to do with the second legal aid clinic. I want to make it clear, for the record, once again, I support the second office, but the way it was done is in line with how everything else is done; we are always the last to know.
I can also tell you there are at least three reviews that will come out after we leave the House. This is related. I am objecting. I am voting against this bill because of the way it's being presented and there is a trend here.
The internal review on Justice is going to come out after we get out of there. The review on the...