Thank you, Madam Chair. This budget, or I should say deficit, has been compared to an inheritance problem. I guess we could blame the 14th Assembly until we are blue in the face, but unfortunately we can't give back this deficit issue. I would love to say thanks but no thanks, but I am having a difficult time exactly which way I am going to go. I mean I look at the struggle wherein if we don't raise it we are going to lose more money. So I think of the struggle as Canada has got a noose around our neck, and the more we struggle by trying to be competitive, the tighter it gets, and it hurts. So being competitive actually kills us I guess at the end of the day. That doesn't help any of us. Our real fight is with Ottawa and not with each other on this initiative. I am still

struggling because in my methodology of life I really believe that we have to look at ourselves first because we are here to manage the public purse, and the question to myself is have we managed ourselves to the best job that we could? To some degree I see that people are taking a healthy look at ourselves, but the one thing I will say with the 14th Legislative Assembly is the fact that they knew this was coming a lot sooner than I knew that this was coming. That being said, I only got elected a few months ago, but they saw this horizon long before I did. What bothers me most is I think necessary steps could have been put in place, actions could have moved forward at that rate and at least helped us set up for the 15th Assembly. So back to my inheritance problem, I think the people who have endowed us with this legacy, I think we were very unlucky, they weren't really our friends. At the end of the day I am still not impressed. I have yet to decide what I am going to do, and I will make my final decision by the end of the sitting today. Thank you, Madam Chair.