Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ll ask my questions to the Premier. They are on

board reform. It seems like the initiatives that this government has undertaken during the life of the 16th Assembly have not gone very far. You would

think that by now the leadership in our government here, the Cabinet, would start to get a picture here; they would start to get a message. At the very outset we demoralized our public service by coming out with a half-hatched plan on reductions. Next we took aim at our seniors, which didn’t go very far and as long as sentiments on this side of the House stay the way they are, we won’t be going anywhere with that either. Now we’re going to take all those good and contributing people in the Northwest Territories who serve on school boards, who serve on housing boards, who serve on health boards. We’re going to take aim at them and we’re going to tell them that we know better and we’re going to form super boards. If you listen to Mr. Miltenberger’s comments in the media, oh, in his Ministerial statement today he talks about consultations, but in his media interviews going back a few months he said there were 70 boards and now there will be seven. I don’t consider that a very consultative approach.

I would like to ask the Premier or whoever wants to answer the question now I guess, who does support board reform? Why is the government pushing on down this road when we have so many other pressing issues that we could be turning our time and energy to? Who does support board reform?