Thank you, Madam Chair. I will leave questions to the appropriate time and try to save some time here. I know the new Minister has taken quite an active role in learning about the department and he has to be commended for that. Going through the draft mains with him, he was very knowledgeable on his department. There is definitely going to be some change at RWED. That's in the cards. It's going to be happening. With change, we have to try to take that as an opportunity to get somewhere to streamline some things. In a department the size of RWED, there can be some
reductions and cost-savings measures that can come as a result of it. The one thing I was hoping that we would get a briefing on is the BDIC, the amalgamation of the Development Corporation and the BCC. I am not sure exactly where that is. The legislation was supposed to have been ready at the end of the 14th Assembly and for whatever reason, it never saw the light of day. I don't know if it's hiding in a closet some place or where it is or why the Governance and Economic Development committee wasn't afforded a look at that legislation or where their department is at with that. I was a bit disappointed with that happening.
The other thing, and Mr. Allen spoke of it and I have seen it happen as well, with diamonds and oil and gas, a lot of things get caught in the shuffle in RWED, especially tourism, fishing, agriculture, forestry. Some things get pushed to the side and I don't know how you give those things a bit more of a profile, but that's something I would like to see this government work more toward is the economic diversification and not try to put all our eggs in one basket. It's almost Easter, so I can say that. The last government seemed to be concentrating on diamonds and oil and gas, and I would like to see us branch out a little bit more and with the division of the department, I think that might afford us some opportunity to do just that. I am happy to see some of the commitments the Minister made to us during committee on the department. Again, I will ask my questions at the appropriate time. Thank you, Madam Chair, for allowing me general comments.