Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When the discussions were taking place regarding the establishment of our own commission, I was one of those people who was very concerned at that time. In fact, I thought perhaps the timing was wrong because there were so many things going on in the national scene. I felt that until we knew where things were going to go nationally it was going to be very difficult for us to know exactly what our limitations were going to be. However, having watched the work and how it was conducted, the kind of attendance at meetings and the quality of the submission, it seems to me that what we have now is something unique. As the chairman has pointed out, this really is a document which comes directly from community meetings and it is very clear in the way it is written.

As far as the content of it, I wanted to raise the issue of rights. We have very often been told, in our Assembly, that it was going to be almost impossible for us to live together because of the way in which we look at things, we are so different in the way we look at things. One example which has been given to us very often is the fact that for aboriginal people, collective rights matter so much. Yet, the traditions which some of us come from, the individual is so important, the state is artificial and it is the individual person who matters.

I noticed in your list of rights, I counted them and there are 12 all together. I will not go through them. However, there are 12 groups of rights which you have identified. What I found interesting, and probably the most interesting in the whole report, in the context of the comments I have just made, is that the commission recommended, on page 15, that the Government of the Northwest Territories in consultation with other leaders consider the development and enactment of a human rights code, prior to coming into force with a new western territory constitution. There has been a great deal of debate about that, as to whether we should have our own human rights code. If that is something which has always been a dividing thing among us, that it is impossible because you look at life in a different way, it is very refreshing to find that you see that this could be the beginning, and at least we can see what things we have in common, including the values that we have. There is a recommendation that perhaps we could go ahead with that as an experiment. We could then decide, once we have worked with it for a little while, whether that is something that we could have as a basis in our constitution. Do you see this as something perhaps that our Assembly could get on with right away, even though we have all kinds of work that has been set out by your commission?