Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to direct my questions today to the Premier. Probably just going back in history a little when our government had a lot more wealth than it does now and the concept was that people got together and they sat around the table and they had little horse-trading sessions and they decided which communities and which regions were getting jobs and programs and capital projects, and they divvied up this big pot of money and everybody went away from the room relatively happy. Well, as we all know, that's not the way things really work around here anymore because we don't have that much money. If you want to have jobs and programs and capital infrastructure in the community, it's usually a long planning process that was brought forward by a capital planning team. It's brought programs that are brought forward in a way that I believe would guarantee some level of fairness and equity to how things are distributed, how the wealth is distributed throughout the Northwest Territories.
But being a consensus style of government, each one of the Members who sit in this House are all independent and we're free and we don't have any party kinds of disciplines. We're free to stand up and express our opinion on every subject that comes up. We can raise subjects, we can respond to subjects, we can respond to what Cabinet Ministers say, we can applaud them when we think they say something good, and we can criticize them when we think they do something wrong. For that, in this style of government, there needs to be an understanding in the public that this government would not condone any reprisals when a Member is not supportive of something the government is doing, and I'd like the Premier to confirm that for us today. Thank you.