Mr. Speaker. I am not going to support this motion. I do believe though in putting it forward, my colleague Mr. Ramsay and those who are supporting it, were putting something constructive on the floor here, Mr. Speaker. That is that the information requested in the motion is nothing more than four years ago in the debate. Okay, I'm getting there. The government should be very forthcoming in saying we will present the revised analysis. We will present the revised risk situations, the revised traffic numbers. Here is what we are willing to put in front of people. That has to be something that the government, at its peril, will not present to this Assembly and indeed to the public of the Northwest Territories.
Mr. Speaker, there is one part of the bill or of the motion that I do find troubling and it's on this basis that I find I cannot support it. The motion recommends that the government not enter into a binding agreement committing it to the Deh Cho project until it has provided Regular Members and the public with said information. If we say we do not want you to enter into a binding agreement until you have shown us the information, that still doesn't give us a veto or a say. The bill doesn't ask for that, but the signal that this motion sends out, Mr. Speaker, to financiers, to constructors, to regulators or anyone else involved in this project, is that we are putting it on hold again. We are putting it at political risk because of the upcoming election.
We need to keep the mandate alive for the government to continue to make this deal, but as I said and I want to underscore this very clearly and as emphatically as I can, we are old. Those new revisions, those new levels of risk that the government feels it can and should undertake on our behalf for this project. Do this and I think we will be able to proceed with confidence. But I am not prepared, Mr. Speaker, to ask the government, in effect, to put a stall on this project. I want to rewrite some history and I am not prepared to revisit the story that we've seen time and time again, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.
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