Thanks, Mr. Chair.
I do appreciate the Member opposite providing a good summary of the good work that Arctic Energy Alliance does carry out. I think part of the difficulty here with this proposed amendment to the motion is that it would basically take away one of the measurable targets or actions for this particular item in the mandate, and that's to expand programs. We haven't said over what period of time or even how much, but it's an inspirational part of this action in here to basically expand those programs.
We can debate and discuss how much and so on when it comes to the actual budget, but to remove that wording now in the context of this I don't think that's a wise thing to do. That sort of qualifier hasn't been added into a lot of other places in the mandate where the Cabinet did see fit to make commitments to do things that actually might cost money as well, so it's kind of curious that you want to take it out of this one, but there's other areas in the mandate document that might cost some money but you're prepared to stand by those. In any event, we've had a bigger debate and discussion around the fiscal context yesterday and I don't think this is a wise thing to remove this one word. It does create a measurable action and a target that we should all be striving towards, so I'll be voting against this. Mr. Chair, I actually would request a recorded vote. Thank you.