Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Premier in light of my Member’s statement.
Everybody realizes we have a major problem all around the world in regard to energy costs and problems with food shortages. As a government we realize that one of our biggest expenditures is dealing with generating power, heating our facilities and maintaining public infrastructure.
I’d like to ask the Premier: is this government tracking exactly where these increases are going and what the impact of this government’s going to be, knowing we have an area of about $45 million in forced growth already and we continue to see this trend? If anything, it continues to go up. It will have a major impact, especially in small, high-cost communities.
I’d like to ask the Premier: what is this government doing to consider looking at the problem we’re having, and more importantly, is there anything we can do to remedy the situation?