Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I guess the government can put measures in place through policy and through understanding. You can put something in place. We've done it, as you can say, through our fiscal strategy to balance the books by 2006-2007. So we've informally, in a sense, headed in that direction. To actually put things in place that are measurable, that people can say you are going to be measured to and held accountable to, it would be much more forward to put it in legislation that governments coming down the road would have to, if they're going to change it, make changes in this arena on the floor that would change how it's being impacted. It's not an absolute, but it's something that I feel, and in talking to my colleagues on Cabinet, we should look forward to bringing in and setting up something that would be clearly measurable by Members of this Assembly and by the public at large. That they can see that and they can see if, in fact, we are meeting the targets that we've set for ourselves. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 19-15(3): Comments On The Budget Address
In the Legislative Assembly on March 17th, 2004. See this statement in context.
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