Mr. Chairman, in concluding, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues on the commission, including our staff, Mr. Ben Hubert, Andy Swiderski and Norma who has left the north. I am sure you would all agree that between August, 1991, and April, 1992, that we developed a good working relationship, although sometimes under some very stressful kind of situations where you are sitting in a community and listening to people with testimony who are actually crying.
I would also like to thank the political leaders and the committee for their support. I know it is not easy for politicians to temporarily turn over a file which is as important as development of a constitution, to an arm's length organization. We think that over the period of August, 1991, to April, 1992, we developed a productive working relationship.
Finally, and most important, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the individuals who came out and made presentations. Individuals did not receive any funding. They took time out of their busy schedules to come and talk to us about their concerns, aspirations and desires. I think they should get proper recognition. I would also like to acknowledge the role of the northern media. They played an important role to get this process widely communicated across the north. At some periods of our public consultation trips, the media were all sitting cramped up in a van and no one complained and it was sort of a happy time. People were prepared to do their part.
Finally, I would like to say that our work is finished. We had a meeting yesterday in which we passed an extraordinary resolution to dissolve the society. The society will be dissolved by the end of March.
Mr. Chairman, we are now available to try to answer any questions which honourable Members may have. We hope you will forgive us if we are a little slow in answering, if we cannot answer a question immediately. Our memories may have faded a bit since last April, but we will do the best we can.
I want to again thank the Assembly and the political leaders for giving me the opportunity to chair this important task, giving me an opportunity to go back to the communities and talk to many friends and people and listen to their concerns. I hope that the work that was done will be taken seriously by this Assembly, or by the new committee of political leaders who are going to work on the next phase. Information is there and you can check it if you like against the report which was presented. I am sure you will find that we covered all the common themes in these documents. We could not report word for word for every person who came up, but we were sure to include all the common themes and all the themes which were important to people in the communities in these documents. With that, I want to thank you very much.
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