Thank you, Mr. Speaker-elect. I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your recent appointment as Speaker of the 18th Legislative Assembly. I'd also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Bob McLeod on his re-election as the 12th, not the 13th, but the 12th Premier of the Northwest Territories. Congratulations. I look forward to working with you.
I've had an opportunity to spend a lot of time in the last couple of days standing before you, talking. I spoke for 20 minutes last Wednesday and I spoke for probably much more than 20 minutes today. Thank you all for all the questions that we had earlier today.
The commitments I made in my speech and the commitments I made during my QA period today, I'm still committed to. This is still an incredibly important institution. I'm still committed to working with each and every one of you.
This isn't going to be an easy Assembly. Anybody who thinks we're going to have an easy time is out of their minds. We have stagnant revenue growth. We have hard economic times in front of us. We put together a set of priorities that are going to be pretty darn demanding. There is a lot of hope in those priorities and we can accomplish that by working together, but it's not going to be easy. There's no way that even one of us is not going to get out of this 18th Legislative Assembly without some bumps and bruises, but it means that we need to work together. It means that we must be united. We will have different roles in this Assembly. Some of us will be Regular Members and some of us will be Cabinet members, but together we can move forward on the priorities we've set, making hard decisions, and we will have to make incredibly hard decisions. I look forward to that. I look forward to being on the Executive Council, and that's why I'm standing in front of you today. I'm standing here today, seeking your support as I put my name forward for Cabinet of the 18th Legislative Assembly.
I'm not going to talk for much longer because you've already heard me go on and on and on and on and I know you're tired, but I am committed to working with and for you and with and for all the people of the Northwest Territories for the next four years and well into the future. Thank you so much.