Oh, thank you, Madam Chair. I was just reminding colleagues that you may speak twice to an item if the chair allows. But once my time is sorted out on the clock, I will begin.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, who likes ice cream? I think you'll find most people do. It takes a real curmudgeonly character to not enjoy a sweet treat. And much like that sentiment with this mandate, there's a lot to like in here. It's an aspirational document that speaks to how the government is going to take the priorities of this Assembly seriously and deliver on them. What it's short on is detail and tangible outcomes, and that is largely my issue with this document. I look to the business plans, which the previous Speaker, my friend from Frame Lake, spoke to is 280 pages. And within those pages, you will find concrete and tangible outcomes. There are some spending targets and commitments identified. There are timelines for legislation. There are numbers of houses to be built, those kind of details. Without that, this document remains comfortably in the stratosphere of an aspirational document, which is fine to have. I think these kind of documents are important, this kind of language is important, and to remain hopeful and collaborative is important as well. But is it useful as a priority setting document? I don't think so. I think it's pretty clear we have -- we worked collaboratively to develop those priorities, and what we want to see is tangible outcomes to make them a reality so we can go back to our constituents and say this is what this government did. If I go back to someone now and say, you know, we've increased investment certainty and create opportunities for the private sector by streamlining administrative processes and ensuring regulatory systems and decision-making are consistent, efficient, and predictable, that's a nice principle to have, but how do we do that? What is the what? You know, that's the objective; how are we going to get there? And we still don't -- and the answer is in those business plans, and that's what requires more scrutiny, I think, from this House to really see if we're achieving these things. And I guess when we speak to process, because process is important to any government and any governing institution and certainly legislative institution as well, we have to -- I have to ask, is this the best process for this Assembly? If this isn't a really useful accountability tool, if it's not a useful tool for setting mandates, because you can already -- we're already setting mandates through business plans and mandate letters, then what is it really? And I think we could have skipped this step and gone straight into the business plans or straight into the mandate letters. And I'm just concerned that if we continue on this path, you know, we have this commitment to take more risks, we're going to see a government that creates a risk secretariat that's going to evaluate risks and give the government policy guidance on what risks to take and what risks not to take, and we're going to establish a new process for that. We need to just govern. We need to just give, you know, a clear Budget Address that has these priorities in it that shows how we're going to invest in them, and then, you know, ask Members to support it. And yeah, so I just wish we would be a little less cautious in even how we go about the business here. It's taken us a long time to get to this point and, you know, we're still waiting to pass our first real budget that's going to have tangible outcomes. And I don't think everyone's happy with that budget. So it's going to take negotiation. It's going to take back and forth. I think we're slow on that process as well. And, you know, the clock is counting down, not just on my time but on our time in this Assembly as well. So I want to see us succeed. I want to see us work together to succeed. But I also want to make sure we're maximizing our time effectively. And I think sometimes we get bogged down in process like this when we could just be moving forward with something more concrete and tangible.

So that being said, I support everything that's in here a hundred percent but I do want to see the how, the why, the what, how we're going to achieve these things, and that -- for me, this document leaves more questions than answers. So I look forward to tomorrow's review of business plans and we'll have more to say about that. But until then, I think I've said everything that needs to be said from my perspective on this document. Thank you, Madam Chair.