Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the Member’s concern and his comments. If you look at the whole fiscal picture at the end of this Assembly or where we currently are now, I would say while we have challenges, it’s not as bleak as the Member would indicate and we are doing an enormous amount of very critical things like the $350 million project at Stanton. We’re discussing a $314 million capital plan, which we bumped up $50 million this year. So there are enormous challenges for a government this size, for a territory this large with the demands as many and varied as they are.
This Legislature has managed its way through some very trying and difficult times balancing a lot of priorities, so as we leave this 17th Assembly and
for those of us who are coming back or intending on coming back, you want to know that you aren’t going to leave the 18th Assembly hamstrung. I don’t
think, at the end of the day, they will be hamstrung. They will have challenges, but every government does. They will have a lot of good things they are going to inherit as well. Thank you.