Mahsi, Mr. Chair. I'll just be brief on this because everybody is beating everybody else on what their concerns are that we expressed yesterday. I just want to let it be known that I won't be supporting this motion, not because of what everybody was saying, you know, the government's lack of foresight and lack of planning escalated by all the changes in the political landscape of the day that kind of added to and made this whole lack of planning look even worse. But I know the Minister stated ECE would be left out in the cold along with all these NGOs. I know that the NGOs that are there now, that they make significant contributions to the community as a whole and I'm sure the community doesn't really give anything about whether ECE gets left out in the cold, but I think they care more about their library and their cultural and their multimedia centre and Open Door Society. I think that probably means more to the community than a government department.
I know the Minister is kind of backed into a corner and this is the only way that he's going to be able to pole vault out of there without getting his feet full of paint and all that stuff. The point I want to make is I think this is a real valuable lesson for government that's got to be learned here and I think that's the point that we're trying to drive across here, is the financial management and government planning has got to really take into consideration that we obviously won't know what every communities' needs and wants are. We don't advocate that we should know, but we want to know, as Members, how this government plans on spending public dollars. I think this issue here never was on the books and we never were consulted on it or even briefed on it and given any opportunities to have any input on what we could provide for information or options that this government could look into. I know that the fire marshal could shut down the building tomorrow if he wanted to and the community wouldn't only be out of an Aurora College and a Department of ECE, but also all these NGOs, which, again, I want to stress that the community probably would take a more harder stance in protecting those NGOs than a government department that is going to be doing the renovations.
So just as a last comment I just want to say that I can't support the motion, not because of the fact that I don't think the government's lack of foresight and lack of planning is to be overlooked, but I don't want to see all the other community organizations affected because of this lack of planning and lack of foresight in financial
management. If we do eliminate this out of the budget, then the ultimate bearers of the whole brunt of this deletion here or this motion is going to be those NGOs, which rely heavily on the Deh Cho Hall as a source and an establishment to carry on their business that they do effectively and efficiently for the community and I have to support that. That's all I'm going to say, Mr. Chair. Thank you.