Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. Thank you, Finance Minister. I was expecting at least a heckle over there.
As I was trying to say, the biomass heating energy retrofit will save $775,000 on our $1.3 billion budget, but in all fairness, we have to keep in mind that’s 0.0005 percent of savings. I think it’s the right track and the right type of thinking, but we need to see more of those types of initiatives.
The legendary military man General Patton always believed in providing the direction and allowing the right people, the skilled people to find a way to get us through.
In closing to wrap this all up, the 2009 drop of $41 million in our forecasted corporate taxes requires a cushion, as highlighted by the Minister of Finance. As I’ve said many times, we need a revenue stabilization stream to protect us. This is just one of the problems on two fronts that we can be tackling as we need to pursue good fiscal, sound management of our books.
I’ll have questions later today for the Finance Minister.