Thank you, Madam Speaker and colleagues. It is always an important part of our culture to be able to show other people how we do things. We do have a uniqueness and I always take great pride in pointing out what the little windows on the outside of our chamber mean. It is the fact that we do translate, at any time, in this Legislative Assembly, eight languages; soon to be nine when we introduce Michif.

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So all people of the territories are represented in their official languages, which is unique. In some countries, there are a lot of languages spoken by the people in their Parliaments. Unfortunately, for them, there are only one or two official languages spoken with the Parliament and those people must comply with that, as used to be in this Assembly many years ago, as Members will recollect. It was either English or French, and mostly English. Our unilingual colleagues had much difficulty in communicating the business of the House with the people who they represent.

With that, I just wanted to tell you how pleased I was this past summer to have the pleasure of introducing our own unique way of government to many people from around the world. I will introduce this delegation later on, Madam Speaker. I would like to say to them welcome to our Legislative Assembly.

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