Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Ramsay, for the motion. I will be supporting the motion. I want to say that in the history of this Deh Cho Bridge Project that the federal government wasn’t there due to other things that they had to deal with. We certainly want to involve them in this project here; however, they had their own reasons for not stepping forward and helping out with the start-up of this whole project here. They had dealt with the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation and the community of Fort Providence and they worked with them on some equity issued there, so in a sense they did come, in terms of steps, they did give baby steps, so to speak, in terms of their involvement with the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation.

I want to also say that when the Deh Cho Bridge, as has been put, and we’re out of the water, however, we were left high and dry, so to speak, and we’ve dealt with this yesterday in terms of the federal government now coming to the table on the word of the Finance Minister to increase our limits on the borrowing for the GNWT. So their involvement has been very soft in terms of what we really wanted them to come forward to.

However, I do support the motion because it raises a bunch of concerns. I look at this motion as more of a really hard learning lesson for the whole GNWT, people in the Northwest Territories and also it gives you a clear picture as to our relationship with the federal government in terms of megaprojects like this, in terms of how our relationship has been with the federal government, in terms of our aspirations and wishes for the Northwest Territories. It raises a number of concerns in terms of when we want projects to go ahead and what things that we have to do, what things that we are challenged with, and also I see this motion to see some strength in terms of our P3 initiatives if we are to move forward on those types of discussions and we certainly need to be

accountable and transparent in terms of this public government and it should be scrutinized and we should have that discussion in this Assembly in terms of our obligations to our people and to the Northwest Territories. This also gives a clear picture of some of the things that went right and some of the things that didn’t go so right here. So, for me, I look at now finding, hopefully, the Auditor General giving me a clear picture to really say what happened again. But there’s another clear picture after that so, you know, I hope that the Auditor General does have some flexibility in terms of how do we go forward in this type of project and having a clear picture.

Mr. Speaker, I look forward to having someone outside the glasshouse to look at some of the projects that we’re doing here and that she could offer her valuable opinion as to how things maybe could be looked at and give us something to look at in terms of putting some solid information on documentation that could go forward in terms of building the infrastructure this size or bigger here. For example, I hope that we do get some support for the Mackenzie Valley Highway construction. This type of information would be so valuable in terms of going forward with this type of information. Or even the Taltson Hydro Project, this is another area that we need to look at in terms of what can come out here in terms of us going forward.

So I just want to say in closing that I look forward to the support from Members. I thank MLA Ramsay for bringing this motion forward, and also just to say let’s take this motion here as a lesson in how to go forward and learn from it. Otherwise, we may be back in this situation again with some other projects that we just recently had some discussions about. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.