Thank you. And thank you, everyone, for the comments; I do appreciate it. I know that this is a departure from previous mandates of this government and of other mandates that you would see in a system where there's a political party who can bring together their apparatus, come up with a plan, and lay that out on day one.
The reason that this mandate is sparse in terms of actual deliverables is because I've seen two mandates prior to this government. I've been involved with the Assembly for two previous terms, and each of those mandates had hundreds -- I think the first one had hundreds, the second one had maybe 170, commitments in there, and they were specific commitments. And I did not find that to be a great way to -- I guess to govern. I didn't find that to be the most useful document. As a Regular Member, I rarely ever referred to that mandate. If there were issues in my constituency, I would speak with businesses or constituents and, over time, I would determine whether or not things had gotten better by how people interacted with the system. If people's problems were never solved, then I knew things weren't getting better. You can really get a sense of how things are operating and how the government is doing just through the day-to-day business of being an MLA. So I wasn't too concerned about deliverables in here -- or sorry, measurements in here. But as the Members point out, it is in the mandate -- or in the business plans.
In terms of, you know, these areas being broad, yes, some of them are very broad. So it was mentioned the health care commitment to deliver equitable access to suitable primary health care. And that's one of only four commitments under that area. And so what that does, to me, it says if you're going to bring forward something about health care, you want to -- you bring forward a program or an ask, it better be focused on ensuring equitable access to primary health care. So it's a way to filter out some of the other things that the government does that perhaps don't focus on the priorities of the Assembly.
Similarly, there's comments in there about streamlining administrative processes. So if a program is coming forward, it better have streamlined administrative processes. If there's an initiative, it better be reducing a regulatory burden.
So as much as what we're going to do, this is a signal to the government of what we're not going to do. We're not going to do the same things. We're going to bring forward initiatives that are in line with this mandate. And so it is different. I didn't want to do the same thing. I didn't want to tie this government to initiatives that were created within the first month or two after the priorities were developed because it was only three months ago that the priorities of the Assembly were set. So I know we've been here six months, but it hasn't been six months that we've had the priorities to develop this mandate.
So I won't say much more, but I do look forward to working with the Members and Cabinet and Indigenous government partners, as was pointed out, to really flesh out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it. And we're going to do it by working together. Thank you.