Thank you, Madam Speaker and honourable Members. The summer is no good in other areas because of fishing and hunting. Fall and winter are no good because people go hunting for moose and caribou. Fall is also open season on ducks and, I guess, municipal politicians in tax-based municipalities. Summer is no good in a lot of smaller communities because that is when the construction and tourism employment occurs. It is also no good in Yellowknife because half of the government employees take off on holidays.

I don't know, Madam Speaker. Maybe the dead of winter with no sunlight and the chance of a blizzard is the best time to hold an election in the smaller, mostly aboriginal, communities in the Northwest Territories. Like I said, Madam Speaker, I am confused.

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