Mr.
Speaker, if we don’t
change the course we’re on today, before the end of the life of this government we will be in a dire situation. We would not be able to carry forward the business as laid out. We have to remind ourselves sometimes that we are spending $1.2 billion for 43,000 people in the Northwest Territories.
There’s got to be a way. We’re starting to do that exercise, and we’ll be more so in the second year of government, re-focusing and looking at how we spend that money and what the results are for that investment. I think we have to consider it as an
investment. It’s not just an expenditure; it’s an investment in the people of the Northwest Territories. If we don’t change that, we will, in fact, be in a situation where we won’t be able to continue on with capital projects. We’ll have to reduce those. We’ll have to take a serious look at all the delivery programs we have.