Thank you, Madam Chair. I live and work for the day as Finance Minister where we’ll have a session in this House and Ms. Bisaro will say we’ve done a good job on budgeting and that we hit an acceptable range of budgets so that we’ll know that we’ve almost approached as close to perfection probably as we’ll ever get. But in the meantime, what we have here are legitimate requests. The Legislature of course can say no. That is our legal right, but we believe we’ve demonstrated very clearly the need.
I think all the Members that have been through the facilities, and we’ve all been through facilities, would acknowledge that the things we do and the work that we do in health and education and housing and every department that’s asking for money are legitimate. We’re paying for what we get. In fact, we all have stood in this House and in committee meetings, we’ve all heard in our constituencies that there’s need for money, more resources, more programs and we try to manage that. Yes, we set targets for ourselves and we try to meet those, but we also are realistic and come back when we know there are things that have to be funded, in our opinion.
So I appreciate the Member’s comments and hopefully over the next three budget years I’m sure we’ll continue to work on the challenge of coming up with a system that meets the needs of all the Members of the Legislative Assembly. Thank you, Madam Chair.