Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise today on behalf of my constituents to especially thank Mr. Ludy Pudluk for his hard work during the last 19 years as the Member for High Arctic.

---Applause Madam Speaker, in my first year as a trainee interpreter back in 1978, I remember Mr. Pudluk did not speak English. Today, he often rises in this House to make Members' statements or ask questions in English. In his Member's statement about David Hamilton, he is correct in saying that he has grown older and perhaps more wise. In the early part of the interpreters' career he used to make us very nervous every time he stood up to talk in Inuktitut as a lot of us were not experienced interpreters from Inuktitut to English.

Later on today, Madam Speaker, I will be tabling a newspaper clipping dated January 1979, with a picture of Mr. Pudluk with a lot more hair on him. The title of the article says "Government to Study Eastern Arctic Fishing Industry." It is because of his consistency on this issue that I think my constituents have been able to earn wages from the fishery. Thank you.

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