Mr. Chairman, these five positions will have the authority to pull together the

superintendents they need to meet with and, from there, on to coordinate the efforts of the department within the region. We have a ministerial form of government where the superintendent will report to a deputy minister, to a Minister, to the Premier. As we have experienced the last number of years as we become more and more busy, is each department tends to operate somewhat in a stovepipe independent of every other one. We need to coordinate more, so people in the communities can hear the voice of government. The regional superintendent for the Executive will be that voice. You need to talk to one person about how does the housing program, the education program, how does it all fit together and who do they speak to? That's the person they go to. That individual will be able to call together the superintendents as it needs, work out a compromise on the particular issues or deal on the issue, provide clarification to the public. If there is difficulty, then those individuals each report to the secretary to Cabinet who reports to me, and then we have a streamlined way of resolving the differences or the difficulties we are running into.

Mr. Chairman, I have to say again that more than anything else, this is the concern and criticism I have heard from people in the communities about our government. It's too fractured and we need to have this coordination, particularly as we get busy with oil and gas, hydro and all the other economic activities we are experiencing now. We need to be streamlined. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.