Thank you, Madam Chair. The Member who brought the motion forward knows full well my thoughts on this. Unfortunately, I will have to share it here publicly.

When I looked at this coming to the table here, I had to really stop and think, what is this motion telling us, what is this motion telling the Members of this Assembly, but more importantly, what is this motion telling the public? You don’t like what we hear, we throw you out? I tell you, I’ll say this again, this is not how we should be governing ourselves. We’re better than that. I say this will all due respect. This was an independent commission chaired by a judge. Let me underline those two words again, independent and judge. It doesn’t get any better than that.

I disagree that culture and language was not dealt with. They were dealt with, as all areas that were explained in a lot of our statements earlier today,

they took into consideration all of those parameters. I hold every one of those parameters to heart that they did take a look at that. They may not like what they hear, but they did take that into consideration.

Unfortunately, this motion I find a bit disrespectful not only to the commission itself, this motion is somewhat disrespectful to the House and any future appointment of anyone who wants to work for this House. Who would want to work for this House when we are going to throw your report out the window? We can’t do that. They gave us three unanimous decisions. I trust their judgment and I will be voting against this motion. Thank you.