Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when we all ran for office a lot of the catch phrases that we heard of accountability, transparency, responsibility, Mr. Speaker, are part of the crux of this motion that's before us today. It goes back to the expenditure of $3.4 million of public funds that, as Regular Members, we never had a chance to debate that publicly, and to me that's not right. How we correct that right is probably a motion like the one that's before us today. We did have some briefings -- to the government's credit they did brief us -- but I'd like to say there was never an opportunity for these dollars to be debated publicly. They are completely outside the budgetary process, and for a government to spend that type of money without that kind of debate taking place in public I think is irresponsible, Mr. Speaker.

Hopefully this motion that is before us today will lend some credibility to the process, we'll get some responsibility into the process and I'm looking forward to my colleagues and their comments on this motion and I think it's a step in the right direction. We have to ensure that we have the public's confidence in us to govern and when we do something that happened very recently with this expenditure of $3.4 million, those are the kinds of things, Mr. Speaker, that erode that public confidence in us. As stewards of the public purse, I'd like to say that I do support this motion and I look forward to hearing from my colleagues on it. Thank you.