Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be voting "no" against these two recommendations, so I thought it was important that I say a few words as I am a Member of this committee, and I felt it was only fair for me to explain myself.

As a Member and a new Member to the Legislative Assembly, we go sometimes into these meetings, and there's a lot of information, a lot of dialogue going on with all this stuff, and sometimes you don't realize the outcome of these recommendations until you've talked to experienced Members, past Members, and realizing the outcome of a recommendation like this. I believe that Members' times, employees' times are very important, and some of this work, when questioning a Minister's statement, having staff sitting around waiting for the resources to back up a Minister for witnesses and the information that goes with it, having them in the sidelines waiting for that questioning or when the Minister's statement's brought to committee, I don't think is well use of the time. So I do respect the process, and I do understand this, but as I -- again, as a new Member, as a new elected MLA, and understanding what the outcome would be now, I have a difference of opinion on the recommendation. So that's my explanation, and I just thought it would be fair to explain that to the Members as a new Member for voting against these two recommendations. Thank you.