Madam Speaker, the people who are largely responsible for signing names and changing names in the Northwest Territories, amongst aboriginal people at least in the western Arctic, are the Hudson Bay Company, the Anglican church and the Catholic church. These institutions took great liberties with people's names, last names. If anything, the fee should be paid by these people for correcting a lot of the names that have been changed frivolously over the last few generations.

It is the intent of the legislation, for the Member's information, to make it simple so that people in the small communities and in the outlying regions can have easy access to the process of changing their names, but also to make it cheaper; not only for this government, but for the applicant as well. Thank you.