Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you very much, colleagues. This was a very good discussion. I think, for people who are watching, maybe to help illustrate some of the way we do business, not just across the floor here, but amongst ourselves. By no means are we always on the same page. I think, though, that all of us are probably about 80 or 90 percent on the same page here.

I would just like to address a couple of things that have come up. When Mr. Handley suggested that we are somehow excluding, or, perhaps, not making fully available our proceedings to all the people and all of the communities, we can't do everything perfectly with the fullest exposure and the fullest opportunity. In fact, Mr. Speaker, most of the business of this Assembly is done in committee, behind closed doors.

When Mrs. Groenewegen said that this is a change in the way we do business, you know, you are darned right it is. It is time we change the way we do business. We have already done it when we went out on the pre-budget consultations. That was a change in the way we do business. It sure seemed to be well accepted by the people in the communities. This is a change in the way we do business.

If you look at just about every other legislature, in the Parliament of Canada, their standing committees are very open. Ours are not. I want to change the way we do business. This is a common agenda that we can share with everybody -- everybody -- NGOs, people in the communities, all over the place. Let's do something instead of doing nothing because it can't be done so perfectly, or fully, or in the best possible way.

Committee Room A is a pretty good room. There have been television cameras in there before, when the media has expressed enough interest in it. We are serving lots of notice about something. The media will be there. It is their job to communicate things. We hope we are going to be topical, and interesting enough, to attract them there.

We, as MLAs, have a job and a duty to do, to communicate what goes on here to our constituents. The fact that we are not going on another major road show to duplicate what Members heard just a couple of months ago, I don't think there is a deficiency. Should we have a special sitting of the Assembly at $30,000 a day to run and pay for all the extra things that go on when we have

an Assembly? Is $30,000 a day responsible? No. We are already meeting in committee. Members are already going to be here for other duties already assigned to us. Let's keep going with this agenda. My expectation is not that we will have some wonderful strategy rolled out to address energy and the cost of living. It is an ongoing agenda, but let's keep working the file. Let's open the doors, and let the people see and hear what we are doing on a more frequent basis, and on one that will help them see how we do our business, and make this place more relevant and more accessible to them.

I welcome the recorded vote that has been called for, and my chance to be seen to be supportive of this kind of change in the way we do business. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.