Thank you, Mr. Speaker-elect. I am running for this role because I see that there are things we can do to improve our system of government and improve the way the government functions and serves the people of the territory. Consensus government is still very young. It is a very young form of government, and there is room for improvement. Things that have changed: I saw some improvements in the last four years, but there is much more room for improvement. We need to start doing those things, and we need to understand that we need to improve. It needs to be ongoing. It is not something where you get in the office and you make changes the first week and that is it. No, we have to have a culture where we are always looking at how we govern and always looking to make improvements. I want to change the expectations in consensus government. I want someone to take accountability. As I have stated, it is all Members' responsibility to hold Ministers and the Premier accountable, but, when it is everybody's responsibility, it seems like it is no one's responsibility, and we need a Premier who is going to say, "I am going to take that responsibility. The buck is going to stop here." I want that expectation to continue forward into future Assemblies.

There is the customer service aspect that I spoke about earlier. The government needs to be re-oriented so that it has a focus on service delivery and not defaulting to "no." The default answer has to be, "Okay, maybe this doesn't work, but we'll see how we can help you. How can we get to 'yes'?"

I have seen governments overreach, the government getting into areas where maybe they shouldn't be, the government competing with the private sector in certain ways, not in all ways. I mean there are some enterprises that they have to get into, but there is a notion that the government is the authority and it is somehow superior to the private businesses, to Indigenous governments. That mentality needs to change as well. The economy needs to be addressed. I was standing up in this House for four years. My very first speech was about the economy in the South Slave, and I rarely see mention of that anywhere, in the media, and other than myself in this House, rarely from anyone else. I won't say that. I won't say that about my colleague from the Nahendeh. However, we need to have a focus on that because that has been lacking, as well.

The other thing I wanted to do in this role is help advance some of these things that should have been done 50, 60, 70 years ago to help make the territory self-sufficient. You know, we always say, "Oh, I wish this Mackenzie Valley Highway was built 50 years ago, but we can't do it now." Well, if we don't do it now, they are going to be saying the same thing in 50 years later, so we have to do that, as well. The main thing I wanted to do was give the power back to the people, Mr. Speaker-elect. That is through things like ensuring everyone has access to the amazing wealth of this territory and ensuring everyone has quality education. Thank you for the extra couple of seconds.