Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, will support this point of privilege. I think the debate is not whether we are helping our residents and not seeing a 25 percent increase; I think it was how it was done and how it was rolled out, and communication has been broken down in our consensus government and this is just one example of it.
As
Regular Members, we’re finding out information
after the fact. We’re finding out information that’s being discussed by Cabinet, by that side of the House, without communicating with us. The whole concept behind consensus government is that we’re included
in that information. If they’re concerned
about
leakage
of
information,
date
stamp
“confidential” on it. If we have issues with that then we have to get to that, but for us to find out this information through a press release is not appropriate.
Mr. Speaker there has to be communication from both sides and it does affect how this House works. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.