Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I also will be supporting the bill as it is brought forward today. I, along with colleagues, do so with mixed emotions, with mixed feelings about this. I hope we’ve learned some very good lessons from this approach that we took to this capital project. I think that once we decided to try to bring this project to reality through a way that could be described as -- I don’t know what the word is -- through the back door, for sure. This was not through the front door. This came to us through the back door and the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation, you know, the capacity to deal with a project of this magnitude was not tested and tried. I feel sorry for the efforts that they made and were not successful in seeing this project to completion. I think there are a lot of regrets all around on this.
I hope that the redeeming reality will be that we will have a bridge -- and I said this, I’m repeating myself now, I said this earlier -- but I hope that we will have a piece of territorial infrastructure that will serve the people of the Northwest Territories for many, many years. I hope that the concerns about deficiencies or defects are just small things that can be dealt with and addressed and that will not, going forward, affect the usefulness and the serviceability of this project.
I think that as the economy is returning to a better standing and inflation will rise and interest rates will go back to higher rates and so on, I am hopeful today that we will look back on this and say that
although the process seemed flawed, that what we end up with at the end of the day is a piece of infrastructure that we can use and be proud of and that we will look back and say that it was a good and worthwhile investment. So I will be supporting the motion. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
