Thank you, Mr. Chair. Climate change is serious, and it is affecting not only us, but it is affecting the whole world. We often stand here and talk about how we are making changes for our children, for our grandchildren, for future generations, and yet we are not moving ahead as fast as we need to on climate change.
One thing I would like to do is I do think that, and I said that in my speech, we need to have a group, a working group, not just a token group, but a real group that maybe stays focused for the whole four years that is comprised of Cabinet Members, Regular MLAs, and Indigenous leaders, and we need to look again at our 2030 NWT Climate Change Strategic Framework because, although it is a good document, I don't believe that it was done in proper consultation and I think it could be a way stronger document. I would like that working group to actually take that on.
The big thing for me, it is not about legislative changes and policies and structural changes; we have talked about that. We need to look at green energy in our buildings and moving policies to incorporate in anything we do, our building, et cetera.
The bigger thing is this is an international issue. This is not a territorial issue. We need to be willing to put our name forward on behalf of the NWT nationally and internationally. We have a duty to bring awareness to the whole world on what is happening. Some countries aren't being affected as much as us, but they will be. We need to be internationally seated so that we can actually learn best practices across the world. Many countries do things better than us, and we are kind of hesitant to take them. We need to find out what is working and adapt them into ours, and we need to bring our own issues on a world basis and talking to them about what we are experiencing in the North, because people are not taking it seriously enough. If you don't see it, often you don't deal it with. We need to bring this to their face, to their attention internationally, and say this is affecting our whole world.
It is one thing to deal with the social program or make a legislation, make a policy, but this is our future, and this is something that we need to, from this day until the end of time, we need to take this seriously. Thank you, Mr. Chair