Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, a little over two years ago, some of the Members of this House celebrated the sod turning of this new building. On November 17, of this year, we participated in the official opening in grand style. The next day, it was down to business, just like it will be next year, and the years to come. November 17, 1993, will just become another day in history. Elections will come and go and so will Members, as we move on into the 21st century. It would be nice to preserve something from this historical year. Something to remind future generations of our moment in time. Madam Speaker, one of the things we may have overlooked in the design and the construction of this building would be a cornerstone, a symbolic marker laid down to remind future generations of the reasons the building was erected.
Madam Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to suggest to this House that we look into the placement of a time capsule into the floor of this building, or into the log outcrops outside, and place in it mementos and information from each of the 24 ridings and of the Legislative Assembly collectively. We could assemble these bits and pieces of our time, the instruments of our labour, commerce of the day and things that are important to us, as well as messages to the next generation, to be opened in 50 or 100 years from now. As George Bernard Shaw once said, "Life is not just a brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendoured torch which I have got to hold for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." That is just a suggestion, Madam Speaker.
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