Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise to speak on a matter of most importance to most Members in this House. Yesterday the chairman of the special committee on constitutional reform tabled in this House an interim report that provided certain direction and recommendations that required the support of the Members of this House. I believe, Mr. Speaker, that the special committee has an obligation to report properly to this Assembly and to all its Members, and in doing such, requires each Member to make comments on the recommendations that a special committee that represents our interests is to take and show to the public as a representation of Members of this House.
Mr. Speaker, that opportunity was not given to us. In fact in many instances the report deals with recommendations to the government, not recommendations to this Assembly, to which the special committee reports. At no time, Mr. Speaker, have Members been given an opportunity to deal with this particular report. The reality is, I introduced a motion yesterday and probably will be ruled out of order because this particular matter has been resolved, without discussion, without comment and without any constructive ideas as to the direction that this special committee, that represents my interests, my constituency, and the people of the NWT, should take. I think that is appalling; appalling because one of the very fundamental privileges that Members have in this House is the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression. And I think it is wrong for any chairperson of a special committee that represents our interest to do the thing that the chairman, Mr. Kakfwi, did to this Assembly yesterday.