Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I did hear some sentiment across the room there that there is some interest. I wonder why there was no interest…. We've asked in the past for partnership for joint strategy initiative committee meetings, and that hasn't happened to date. Again, the water is rough right now, and if I had to point to one thing, it would be the fact that Regular Members have not been included in this process in a meaningful way.
That's why the motion is here again today. I just wanted to mention that the Premier was talking about the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Both have the most liberal budget-sharing information in the country, given the fact that we have consensus government here in the Northwest Territories and also in Nunavut. But just because we have that ability to share information with one another doesn't mean we can't take that next step. Personally, if we did do something like that, I would see us working closer together.
It's not much fun coming in here every day and talking about process and talking about why we're not involved and talking about why we're not consulted and finding out things from employees. It happens, and it's not very much fun. We came here to work together. It's a consensus government. I think the least the government can do is invite us to these meetings and get our input.
We've heard from Members around the Regular Members' side here. We all have experiences, we all have our strengths, and we want to bring them to the table. We want to have our input registered somewhere. Seven months into the life of this government, I really wonder where our input is. It's nowhere to be found, and that's what this motion speaks to.
Again, I thank the Premier and I thank Mr. Miltenberger for speaking to it, but we do want to be more involved than we have been to date. Mahsi.