Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Like most of my colleagues from the East and the West, I believe in unity. Although I believe in unity, I also believe in the right to self-government and self-determination for aboriginal people. A number of times people ask why the people of the Eastern Arctic want to divide. What do we hope to gain from division? I think we want to be able to determine our future. We want to be able to control and operate, in our own land, the renewable resources, non-renewable resources, wildlife management. We have inhabited the land for many thousands of years, before anyone else. I think we have that right to be able to determine our own future.

I also believe that eastern people support the Dene in their endeavour to have their own land claim settlement. Like my colleague, Mr. Nerysoo, I support the Dene people as he supported Inuit people in their determination to have their own future, especially in running their own land.

Mr. Chairman, it is important and significant to retain our language and our culture. I am proud to be a native person, aboriginal person. I am proud to be an Inuk.

We, the native people, the Inuit people as well as the Dene people, have survived by working together. I am not saying that Dene and Inuit work together, but I know Dene people have survived by working together. The same goes for the Inuit people. We have survived maybe 30,000 years by working together in Nunavut. Nunavut means, literally translated into English, "our land." We have always worked together in order to survive. We are very much a community people. That is what we would like to see May 4th when we go to vote on the plebiscite to determine the boundary.

I am very confident that, as usual the Eastern Arctic people will stick together and have the yes vote. This is my opinion, but I am not able to foresee the results of the future. Most of the Members of this House are probably in the same situation.

Mr. Chairman, I am not going to prolong discussing this. I support the plebiscite to determine the boundary. I support division. Mr. Chairman, I support Nunavut. I wanted to express this as the representative of Natilikmiot and Kitikmeot regions. Thank you.