Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know my colleagues have addressed this issue and this motion in my mind and I will applaud them for that. I won't take up too much more time on the motion this afternoon.
I think it's very sad that we had to go to the extent of drafting this motion today to present to the government. It should be embarrassing for the government that the Regular Members on this side had to go to this length to tell the government that you have a policy and you should live by the policy. Either you are going to support the northern economy and the northern manufacturing industry or you aren't. That to me is the saddest thing of all this, Mr. Speaker, is that we have to draft this motion to try to send a message to the government that we want to be kept informed and we want to know what's going on and we don't take the waiving of the BIP on any contract lightly. We've got to define to our constituents and to the businesses that are out there what this government is doing and if we are not informed, we have a difficult time in doing that, Mr. Speaker.
So I am in full support of this motion and hopefully the government is paying attention and they are listening. As I mentioned earlier in my Member's statement, they didn't learn a lesson with what happened with the North Slave Correctional Centre. Again they chose to waive the BIP and look at the storm that it has caused. There is really no need for it, Mr. Speaker. The spirit and intent of this motion is to show the government that we are serious about this and we are not going to take no for an answer. We want some answers from the government. Again, I am supporting this. Thank you.