Mr. Speaker, I rise today and had a Member's statement prepared on a different subject from the one I am going to address today. I keep a journal and have kept one for over 30 years, Mr. Speaker, and had thought that your birthday was tomorrow. I have since learned that, in fact, it is today. I would like to point out that as the Minister of Justice our honourable Speaker kept his cards very close to his chest. It was very, very tough to get information out if he really did not want to divulge it.
I remember trying to get from our current Speaker the information I wanted about a lady called Mrs. Hope, who was in the prediction business, who would tell you your fortune, and I found it very, very difficult to find out under what kind of regulation or law she, in fact, practised this profession of predicting people's future. So since we now have a northern government with an access to information act, I would like to urge all Members to use whatever force they can so that this very carefully guarded secret would be available to all people in the Northwest Territories.
I would like to know, and I ask all Members to help me in this process, to find out not only how old the Speaker is, how many years he has got on the clock, but also where he was born, what time of the day, in fact, this great event took place, so that we can refer the information back to Mrs. Hope so that she can predict the future, not only of our Speaker, but also of this Legislative Assembly. Thank you.
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