Mr. Speaker, I’ve been here as long as the Minister has been here in this House and the Minister could tell us right now how many days we have left in the 17th Assembly. I’m
sure he knows. I want to say I for one, as my colleague used to say, am sick and tired of talking about this while we spend money on chasing rabbit trails that go nowhere.
How many millions of dollars did we spend talking about the Taltson expansion, for the power purchase agreements for the mines, which went absolutely nowhere? I could have told you that was going to go nowhere. We were never going to build a transmission line across the East Arm of Great Slave Lake to the diamond mines. Then the study to whether we should build a transmission line to hook up the grid. All of these studies, reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, I mean, we could fill a library with all of the studies that we have done. Yet I want to say we need to leave a legacy of the 17th Assembly. Maybe it’s partly devolution, I don’t know what it is, but this Minister has been here a long time. I’d like to start doing some tangible things so that we can say that we made a difference and we just did not continue to spend millions of dollars thinking about it, looking at it, holding energy charrettes. Let’s do it.