In my campaign, I talked about the need to make it easier for ordinary people to get information so they can inquire about government programs et cetera, because I always thought it was almost impossible to get information from the government. After two years here, I find it is easier than I thought it was. Maybe someone was not pushing hard enough or trying to find out information as aggressively as I was.

I have no problem with the first part of the motion. However, for the second part, I am a little leery that we are hyped up right now in creating our own Nunavut government sometime soon. As my friend, Mr. Todd, stated this morning, I think in answer regarding one of the bills, because it is a revenue initiative, also it is done by other jurisdictions. With that kind of precedent setting, that when Nunavut is created we will probably have to include anything that a western Member or former NWT legislation has without Nunavut itself, through imaginative approach, creating their own legislation which is important to them. Mr. Patterson touched on a few of them: housing, social problems, anything that is important right now. I am not going to vote against this, but for the purpose of creating an ombudsman in the second part, I think we are being a little careless in not establishing this one by one. Let us go with the first part of the motion, and I will support it.

Perhaps sometime we could discuss again whether in fact the MLAs are not doing well enough and we need an ombudsman. Then, we could discuss that later, but right now we do not have any problem whatsoever with this present government or with our constituency in exchanging information or digging up information that people need. At least, I have not. I am a little leery about supporting the second part. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.