Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the Member’s assessment, her bottom line assessment that at the end of the day it was a good decision to put the $20 million to offset the rates. The intent was not to make Members look bad. The intent was to deal with a pressing issue that was going to put all of our constituents under needless or extra financial burden at a time when we’re all struggling with how do we deal with the cost of living. We do place great value on protocols. We spend an enormous amount of time when we do business on process, making sure we’ve touched every base that needs to be touched as it relates to the protocols in terms of informing folks, sending stuff to committee that we’re doing so that they at least have the information and can decide if they want a briefing, offering a briefing and doing the briefings, the correspondence.
But there are times during the daily affairs of government where there’s a deemed requirement to move fast and in this case we did that. I hear clearly that we didn’t touch enough bases or as fully and thoroughly as we should have in the minds of the MLAs and we accept that criticism. On a go forward basis, we’ll of course try to keep the high standard that we do most of the time throughout and we’ll answer the questions that the Member has.
She listed a whole number of things in terms of interest and all those type of things. I’m assuming she was using those as examples and will raise them when we get to that specific item. If not, I apologize and I will do my best to try to respond to those. Thank you.