Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are addressed to the Minister of Transportation. I would like to follow up on the statement that I made earlier. At the risk of asking the Minister to be repetitive, I will try to ask some questions which haven’t already been answered.
About a year ago the Minister of Transportation made a statement on National Students Against Impaired and Distracted Driving Day and in that statement he recognized the dangers posed by drivers using cell phones. Then in March of this year, when the Minister was reviewing the operations budget with us, he advised that the GNWT is not considering legislation which would ban cell phones and driving, that he was waiting for more information.
I’d like to ask the Minister whether or not this situation has changed -- I think his answer is probably no -- whether or not there’s been any research or any more information undertaken or received by the department and is there any hope that the Minister will consider introducing legislation to ban the use of cell phones while driving?