Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. My questions, too, will be for the Minister of Finance who I don't think gets it quite yet on what we have discovered here, and that is that the public really does value the opportunity to have input. When the Minister said that we do have a consensus and an open style of government, amongst ourselves, as Members and Ministers and committees, we do. It is something that I have talked about in this Assembly before, and it is a reality that when the government releases the budget planning and business planning process to us, which actually happens in

September, we are gagged. We are restricted from discussing a lot of the information, a lot of the program detail with our constituents, with our communities, with our NGOs.

This is the part of the process that we want to open up. My question, Mr. Speaker, is that, with due consideration, we have to work through this carefully, how can the government go about releasing Members from the restriction of confidentiality, as I say, this gag order that we are under, so that we can have more freedom to talk with our communities, with our constituents, about the budget and the planning process? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.