Thanks, Madam Chair. I guess I find it necessary to respond to some of the things we just heard from the finance minister, but I also want to put this recommendation in context in terms of what the committee heard and saw. So, you know, Regular MLAs, we asked for this correspondence between the Minister and the federal government. We asked for that in July. We didn't get it until January, months later, months later after repeated requests. Repeated requests, Madam Chair. I've reviewed it, and of course I can't talk about it in any great detail here but what I saw was some pretty -- I think the federal government was quite flexible in how jurisdictions could approach a carbon tax, how they could design a system that would meet their own needs, and even if they decided to go into the federal backstop it was laid out in pretty clear terms. I think there was a lot of flexibility shown on their part. I don't think I can say much more, but I think that there was some commitments on our part that weren't fulfilled, but. I saw the correspondence. I reviewed it carefully. But it took us months to get that. Months.

So this recommendation, though, is not from Cabinet, not from the finance minister, this is from the Legislative Assembly. And if the motion passes, I think it reflects the will of this House. That's different than a finance minister writing to, you know, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada. This is a letter that would go to the Prime Minister of Canada. The Prime Minister of Canada also, as we understand, made some commitments to this government when GNWT did sign on to the Pan-Canadian Framework. And I think there's probably still some room to maneuver and try to work with the federal government to get greater investment here so that we can develop more alternatives on renewable energy to help give people more choices and reduce their cost of living. And that's what this is really aimed at. So I don't think this is necessarily a criticism of Cabinet or the finance minister. This is trying to follow up with commitments that had been made in the last Assembly and making sure that this expression comes from the House, not just from the Cabinet's side. So I support this motion, Madam Chair. And I think it's a reasonable one. Thanks, Madam Chair.