Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess that's food for thought and this government only has six months left to go before the next election and then there will be a new government. It's something I think that people really need to pay attention to, because we have to set up a plan. We have to set up some priorities. We can't have an unlimited amount of priorities because if you have an unlimited amount of priorities, then you have none, really. I mean as a government I think you have to identify some areas of your operation that you're going to concentrate on and if there is position growth, that's where it happens. The life of government is only four years. It's not a tremendous amount of time. Sure, there will be some instances where you're going to have to do something. Those are extraordinary things. But I think when the next government -- and it should be part of the transition document that's developed by the current government -- that the next government come in and develop some type of strategy to set a couple of priorities. Where are those priorities? Probably education and health care. You know? What I think is happening far too often is we're allowing administrative, policy, things like that to eat up a tremendous amount of what we have left to spend in priority areas. Like I said, if everything becomes a priority, then you don't have a priority. I really think that's what's happened with this government. Again, I certainly would like to see the department start work on something, a plan for the future on how you're going to work with aboriginal governments. It's vital to our very existence here that we get a plan for the future. If you don't have a plan, then what do you really have? I mean we're flying by the seat of our pants. We have been for four years on position growth. The numbers prove it. Sure, some of them have been spent in the health care field and education and areas like that, but there's a tremendous amount of that growth that hasn't gotten into the communities. So I think that's where we have to pay attention to this, Madam Chair. Thank you.
David Ramsay on Committee Motion 50-15(5): Implementation Of The Third-party Accountability Framework, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on March 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 50-15(5): Implementation Of The Third-party Accountability Framework, Carried
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