Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have been asked by three of my constituents, why yesterday, when there was a motion in this House, requesting the Prime Minister to send Marcel Danis to Yellowknife, this motion was not made by a Yellowknife M.L.A.

I should explain, Mr. Speaker, that yesterday morning all ordinary Members met, as we always do, and it was agreed that on behalf of all Members, the Chairman of the Ordinary Members' Caucus, Mr. Nerysoo, would make that motion, and that we would get somebody from the eastern Arctic to second it.

In order to illustrate that this issue is of interest to more Members of this Assembly, it goes far beyond the borders of our city, because of the immensity of the things that have happened over the last several weeks.

Related to this, also, Mr. Speaker, is the fact that yesterday, although I am the Member for the centre of this city, I was not in the House when the recorded vote was taken. Mr. Speaker, I was part of the decision that morning to construct that motion, and urged every Member to support it. While the vote was being taken, I was busily engaged helping a very distraught individual, from my constituency, who was very upset, and was not able to get back into the House in order to record my vote.

Today, Mr. Speaker, I should like to record, and give my absolute unequivocal support to the motion that was passed yesterday, in my absence.

Thank you.