Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just briefly I want to just draw Members’ attention up and away from this specific issue that is on the table and just remind everybody about our fiscal circumstances, similar to what Mr. Menicoche was talking about.
We have a very modest capital budget, a very rigorous process that takes a great deal of patience and hard work to get projects on from across the North. It’s a process that everybody watches very carefully. We also are dealing with a project – I want to mention this project again – of the Stanton Hospital that is going to be the biggest capital project we have ever done in the Northwest Territories. It is going to take away what modest flexibility we have, so we have to be very careful about layering on new costs that will limit our flexibility, that will make it more difficult to try to meet some of the needs that are out there that have come up through the process.
All of these projects, we are swamped by far more needs than we have money. There is no doubt about that. I am just sitting here listening to the debate, looking at the previous motion in this House to add more money, money we don’t have; money, when we add it to all the other things on our plate, that is going to push us perilously close to the milestones and marks that we set as a government and as an Assembly to manage our money, to keep our credit rating, to keep our flexibility. So Cabinet won’t be supporting this motion either, just on the basis that we have a plan and we are working very hard to stick to it. We need to all remember that. Not that these aren’t good projects, but we can do what we can afford and we are always making choices, and that is what we are doing again in this case here. Thank you.