Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I, too, am going to support the motion, but I do want to make some comments on it, and I do think it is a bit of a stray from how we normally do business in the fact that we say that Accountability and Oversight is going to hold a public meeting to which we are going to summon the government to present a strategy on the cost of energy. Then, a couple months later, we are going to summon them again to a public meeting of AOC to present their strategy that is going to solve the issues of the high cost of living in the North overall. It's just not the way we normally do business.

This is a consensus government. I was far more amenable to the idea of striking a joint committee between Cabinet and Regular Members and kind of brainstorming together. We didn't want to spend the money by taking it out as a travelling road show and spend $1 million, because I think that's kind of offensive to people too. So I would have been more amenable; I don't know what kind of optics we're trying to create here. If you want to talk about a public meeting of AOC with all the Cabinet Ministers there, well that's right here. It is right here. That's it. Maybe we should convene a special sitting of the Legislature and tell our constituents in the North that we're all going to write a letter to the Commissioner and ask to

convene a special sitting of the Legislature to deal with the cost of energy and the cost of living in the Northwest Territories.