The Finance Minister is the one who has to carry this file and it’s unfortunate that he has to carry this file, which really isn’t his file to carry. It should have been handled, rightly so, by the Building Society. If they had provided a letter saying they supported this or not…They weren’t kept in the dark. To suggest that they are coming to the dinner is almost like the spider saying to the fly, come to dinner. I’m sorry, making them culpable by saying they will be there by dinner, don’t worry, we’re all one, doesn’t cut it for me. I don’t think it’s doing our job.
I shame all the MLAs who are going to vote for this because it sounds like it’s not for the Building Fund. I will leave it at that. I think the argument has been made. We could go back and forth another two minutes or three minutes or whatnot, but I’ve stated my grievance repeatedly and I encourage all my colleagues in this Assembly to vote against this portion and we redirect it to some type of capital legacy infrastructure commitment that is so rightly intended by the mandate of this board. It’s not a question, but I do appreciate the Finance Minister taking the full breadth of my grievance on this issue. As guided by the Speaker today, I guess I have to talk to Cabinet nicely, so I will leave it at that.