Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to add a little bit to what Mr. Lewis was saying. I attended all the meetings which took place in the east and the view which was taken from the presentations that we received from the east are slightly different from those which we received in the west. The participation in each of these hearings in the east was much greater than in the west, which I think was what the Premier was looking at.

I do not know how many people in the west know how accessible Yellowknife is from the east. In the east we heard of the definite need for either an ombudsman or someone from an office from access to information located in the east. When the suggestion was made from the west that MLAs could do the job of an ombudsman, in the east it is a different story. For example, I have now been here for seven straight weeks. As far as people in my area are concerned, I am not accessible because I am in the west. There is a telephone but that is not the same as having a person right there in front of you to talk to you in the language that you understand. I think that is what we heard from the east, just to add to what Mr. Lewis was

saying because that was where we were coming from in the east. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.