Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman. I am of a similar view as well. In my Member's statement in the House a couple of times, and even in my opening address and in the debate that happened the last couple of days on last Friday and Monday, was that there is a lot of activity going on in our communities. We went through a very painful process here that we just concluded and that the public perception is that it is pretty negative towards us here as a government.

People in the communities are saying that life has to go on and that we have to carry on with what we are here to do until it is finished. I am committed to do that, to carry on the work here. I guess putting my name forward is that I am saying that I am here, I am ready to work, let us get on with it. There are a lot of concerns out there that we still have to deal with. There is quite a bit of negative fallout on the part of the government here and people are questioning if we have the ability here collectively to run their affairs in the north. I think that I have faith in the people in the north. I think we are very smart and intelligent people. A lot of us have survived bigger hardships than that in our communities and that life has to go on.

What I am saying is, we have to show to people, the public and people outside the Northwest Territories and Canada that we are capable of managing our own affairs. We can do the job and we can do it in a very transparent and good way. That I hope will develop trust in us as a government by the people in the remaining months that we have here. It will show the public that we are sincere in what we are doing, that we have a job to do and we would like to finish it. That is the top priority that I see right now. Thank you.