Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. With respect to the appropriations that are before us, there is the $15 million for advance contribution to the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation. I had remained largely in support of the Deh Cho Bridge Project and largely quiet on the issue. However, the feedback I’m getting from my constituency is that their initial gut reaction is they are fed up that they want the taxpaying public to bail out this project. My members were sceptical of the $165 million price tag. Like my colleagues in the House, they knew that over-expenditures were coming. As well, they’re not convinced that a $15 million request in this supplemental is the end price tag for this project which is now at $180 million to $200 million.

They do want to know a cradle to grave; I wouldn’t say grave, but a timeline and expenditure line of the project to date. It’s an opportunity for me to do it here with the Minister that’s before us to see if we can get that commitment. The constituency is not interested in a lengthy forensic audit which can be costly and/or one of our tools as legislators is to seek full public inquiry. That’s not a route that they want to go to either.

However, now that we are in control, we should have the capability to provide an examination of how we got here to date. The feeling, of course, is that any over-expenditures will be draining resources away from other regions, like my constituency of Nahendeh.

I believe that this Minister’s office that’s before us or the Minister of Transportation do have the capacity and capability of providing at least an explanation of how we got here to date. Yes, in our briefings we’re told certainly there are circumstances beyond our control, but I think we do owe it to our public to provide that the best way we can. I’ll certainly speak more on this topic as we deliberate this request that’s before us. With that, thank you very much.