Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the Minister for coming in today and his staff as well. I will be brief.
Basically, I’m glad that the review has been conducted into the capital process. I’m optimistic that it’s going to be a better way to move forward in the future. I think doing the capital now as opposed to later, after Christmas, tends to make a significant amount of sense. It will give us an opportunity to get ahead a little bit this time.
I’d just like to thank you guys for doing the work and coming forward with this plan. I think it’s a good plan. I am cautious though, obviously. I would suggest that it would be valuable for us to put some sort of not implementation but review process into this whole capital plan — not a review of the capital per se but a review of how we’re proceeding with capital in the future.
I know this is the first time we have done it this way. Once again, I’m optimistic that it’s a good way to go, but I would like to see the Department of Finance put in some sort of mechanism so we can monitor the effectiveness of this and ensure that it is attaining the results we hope it will.
So like I said — I’ll be incredibly brief — I think it’s good. I think you guys have done a really great job. I’m looking forward to moving forward. I’ll discuss the detail when we get into the detail, but if the department could commit to ensuring that we have some sort of evaluation framework in place, that would be fantastic.