Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to make a couple of quick comments. I was not recommending that there be a lawyer hired for this position, if such a position is created. In fact, that is what I am afraid of. Having been a lawyer perhaps I know better than most that this might not help meet the real needs that people like Mr. Gargan are concerned about in our communities. I have some real doubts about whether transplanting the Ontario model to the Northwest Territories would work and would serve our needs. I want to assure Mr. Gargan, that if we get to the stage of creating an ombudsman, I hope we will do it differently, I hope we will have a northern solution which will be reflective of the real needs of our people.
Mr. Chairman, I can see there is great support for this motion. I feel, with greatest of respect to the Members of the committee, that my question about why we would do yet another legislative action paper when we have already been considering one, has not yet been answered. I still would like to know why we need to do this all over again. Because I thought there had been a legislative action paper developed on which there was extensive public consultation. I fail to understand why we would want to do it all again and how a new legislative action paper would be different from the previous one which, yes, I had the privilege of tabling in this Legislature in my former life. I am not sure what the new paper would do that the old one would not do, so I am inclined to take the only option which is open to me and at least abstain on this motion because I do not have an explanation of what this paper would do that the previous one did not do. Thank you.