Mr. Speaker, in no way would I ever be advocating that checks and balances need to be wiped away and streamlined by just dropping them by the wayside, but ultimately, Mr. Speaker, when we have things like new mines -- they take 10 years to develop here in the North -- we need to develop a broad economic base, because, as I said, if you don’t have money coming in, we’d have to make cuts. This year is yet another fine example where corporate taxes keep getting a beating and we can only keep looking so far when we don’t have anyone else to draw it from.
But, Mr. Speaker, when we have a situation where Avalon wants to develop a 100-year mine, what is really slowing this government down from supporting this? They ask for power. They can’t get power. They want to develop a 100-year mine. We could use that type of base. What is the Premier doing to make sure that we don’t lose this opportunity? Thank you.