Thank you, Mr. Chair. Coming from a region with a high cost of living and some of our higher fuel costs in the diesel communities, this was brought forth to committee and we had a good discussion on it. It’s all about investment, high cost of living and the costs to this government on what we are paying in this area. With the short-term gain of the dollars that we’re saying, those dollars could be reinvested into another program where, if we come up with a five- or 10-year strategy in the short term, that will start lowering the cost of living for some of the communities that are bearing the brunt of these high costs of fuel.

Like I said, when it was brought to committee, it got me thinking that we could start focusing community by community and getting a lower cost of living for our residents, for our businesses and for the way people are doing business.

With that said, you’ve heard comments from my two other colleagues here and I am in support of this motion and, like my colleague said, I hope others are because we do see a high cost of living and there are dollars to be saved here, like we did with the early childhood development. The sooner we start investing, the sooner we are going to start seeing a return on investment in some of the decisions that we make in this House. Thank you, Mr. Chair.