Thank you, Madam Chair. I am listening to the Minister’s reply. I am not sure I agree 100 percent. You know, it is government’s job to set that bar. We set it with legislation, we set it with regulations, so why wouldn’t we set it for safety? I don’t get it. What makes safety the Achilles heel of trying to do what’s best for everyone that’s involved with the government in terms of making sure that we are compliant, even ourselves? I don’t get the fact that we are lowering those expectations because we don’t want to leave companies out in the cold.

I can assure the Minister, if the government sets the bar and says these are the minimum requirements you have to apply to a jobsite, to apply for a construction contract, to build a road, I can assure the government, I can assure the Minister companies will comply. There are programs out there that can meet those standards. We just don’t know what those standards are because we don’t set any standards. That is the concern, Madam Chair.

This is a very unorthodox way of doing business. This is a very unsafe way of doing business, and quite frankly, I can only expect we are going to be finding ourselves in the courts and getting tongue lashed by court judges, Territorial Supreme Court judges, saying, “Where is your safety program? Where is this culture of safety?”

Again, I am going to leave it at that. The Minister has responded to my concern. I just think that we’re failing, and until such time as we set that bar, as our duty is and is incumbent on the people we serve. To do otherwise is sacrilege. Sorry. Thank you, Madam Chair.