Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in the House here today to speak about the bill, and I don't know where to start but the best way for me to talk about this is that I want to say small communities do matter. We got 33 communities in the Northwest Territories, and we all have our own needs and wants and ask, and I got to work with our own Indigenous governments that are bringing their issues to me all the time. And I get calls every day, evenings, weekends, and I continue to advocate for them.
Mr. Speaker, in the 19th Assembly I came in through a by-election, and at that time I brought my wish list forward to this government. And I was told that the wish list for my Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh riding was that we're going to try to put your wish list on the train, but the train left two years earlier on a four-year mandate. And it would appear that the -- my wish list for my riding was put on a suitcase and they tried to throw it on a moving train, but it bounced off. And the issue there is that the issues of my riding at that time never was addressed in the 19th Assembly --