Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I said, on the morning of November 12 I was told by a bureaucrat of the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs that while we

met, the mayor, council and town senior administrators were being dismissed by an administrator who had been appointed by Mr. Allooloo and sent to my constituency to do that deed. Mr. Allooloo had not consulted me or informed me in any way about this drastic action. Even though, Mr. Speaker, I had been requesting information from his office, his staff and other Ministers of the Cabinet about developments with the town for weeks.

Mr. Speaker, the manner in which this was handled and the absence of process consulting in a consensual manner with the MLA -- the elected representative of that constituency -- in this House, was completely unacceptable to me. I suspect it's completely unacceptable to other Members, as well.

I have, to this day, Mr. Speaker, still not received an adequate explanation of why I was not given the courtesy of being consulted or even informed as the elected representative of the community of Iqaluit, before such an important decision was taken. Or, indeed, why Mr. Allooloo seemed to have disappeared around that time. So much for taking advantage of the wisdom of MLAs and their superior knowledge of the communities. So much for Cabinet Ministers working with and being accountable to MLAs and their communities. So much for consensus government, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

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