Thank you, Mr. Chair. I simply want to state I’m happy that we have undergone this process. I think it’s very becoming of us as a government to take an opportunity halfway through our term to review the priorities that we made as a government. Certainly, when you’re fresh off the campaign trail and newly elected, there are a lot of burning issues. We seem to at times even get emotional about those.
We put a lot of work and lot of effort into drafting our original mandate, but as I noted, I think this is the right thing for us to do. I’ve appreciated the steps that we have taken as a government: meeting earlier in the spring and again later in the fall, and now coming to a revised mandate halfway through our term. I think it only makes sense. I’m a small business kind of guy, and it’s not uncommon for small businesses to have to pull out their business plan ever once in a while, dust it off, and make revisions so that they can stay current.
We hear from our constituents on a regular basis and they’re the ones that matter in this. They’ve informed us time and time again on those things that they value and that they want to see us work on collectively. We’ve come to realize over time that maybe some of those things didn’t get fully captured in the original mandate. With that, I want to simply say thank you to everybody for all the work that everyone has done in getting the mandate to where it is today, and I look forward to completing the process. Thank you, Mr. Chair.