Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to direct my questions to the Minister of Finance. I wish I could get excited about all the good news in the budget, but there are some unhappy things...

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There is a lot of good news in the budget and I think everybody knows, including Mr. Roland, that I think he does a very good job. I wouldn't want to be the Finance Minister for any amount of money. I think he did a good job today and some people in the gallery even said...

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Some people out in the Great Hall today said it was the best budget address they've ever heard. But I've had a few unhappy things happen in my community lately which sort of tempers my excitement about the budget address today.

I'd like to ask Minister Roland, I guess in a broad context, Mr. Speaker, if there isn't something we can add to our process here which would make for more availability of being creative. We're a territory of 42,000 people. We have $1 billion. If we can find a million or two for some new little initiative, we're all excited about it. Because there are so many things that are already in place, there are so many directions we're already going in and it seems like there's a disconnect between this whole life that exists within departments and how the government operates and what we actually bring to bear on it, it seems like there's a bit of a gap there. It seems like when we sit down to consider things, it's in a very reactive fashion. We can sort of look at exactly what's before us and respond to it. But it doesn't ever seem like there's an opportunity to sit and look at it in the context of we've got a billion dollars, what are our priorities, what would we like to do as this small, little population that lives up here in this vast land mass. I would like to ask the Minister of Finance if he thinks there's anything that could be added to our process that could help us be more responsive to the realities that face our territory. Thank you.