Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will also be supporting the motion. At the beginning of the 17th Assembly I did pose a

question to the Minister of MACA and I asked if we could begin, as a government, to track the cost of fuel at the pumps and at the home heating delivery trucks compared to the price of crude or what other benchmarks are out there, and I believe that this was undertaken by MACA and I do appreciate that. But we are at the mercy of the folks that set these prices. It does seem curious that when the prices go up at the pump it’s an immediate reaction, and when the prices go down nothing happens. When you also compare our costs here compared to other places like northern Alberta even, I mean, there is no way that it is just transportation cost as a difference. It is far gone and above that.

So we are kind of being held hostage here on the fuel prices and the fact that this is an essential commodity, essential services are treated differently in industry and an essential commodity like home heating oil and gasoline for our vehicles is extremely essential in the North, and we don’t exactly have the opportunity to come up with other solutions in the short term. Although, Mr. Bromley would disagree with me on that.

Anyways, I will be supporting the motion. We do definitely need to look into this. Thank you.