Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The point the Member is making is well taken. It is understood that we had intended to encompass those people all within this issue. That's the reason we have invited everybody to sit together today.

There is a draft motion being circulated to Members to consider. It will probably be by way of a formal motion, either later today if we get that organized, if not, then perhaps tomorrow in the course of the business of this House.

We should know that since we started this debate and tabled the papers...For instance, for me, it's tremendously significant when the Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated took a position and set up a committee to do some action-oriented work just a day ago. This is the kind of development that I think all of us were hoping for. We premise this initiative on the fact that unless the leadership makes strong commitments, and unless we push other leaders in other corridors in the communities and in the regions, all the money and the political talk will mean very little. The programs and the initiatives that we support as a result of this commitment mean there has to be a great element of sincerity in the initiatives that we put forward. That we're not doing it simply for political convenience, hoping it will appease those people who are crying out for help, that it will go beyond that. All of us want to do something. The comments and suggestions that were made today, particularly by Mr. Dent, are the kinds of things we want to hear. We need to lock ourselves in a process where we are going to do something and not do something in isolation but in concert with those groups that are advocates of the people we are trying to address.

I think it should be said that certainly, I don't want to take the high road on this issue. I feel strongly about it, as many Members do. I, too, live in a glass house and am in no position to be throwing rocks at anybody. But, we have to start sometime and the suggestion is, with the declaration, we can start today. We can say that from this day forward, we will try to honour the position and the responsibility that people who elect us put us in. We are obliged to create some order out of chaos, some security out of fears and the many things that plague our people. That is our job. I think we do good things but, as Mr. Dent recognizes, we have to commit ourselves to a process where someone will watch us and make sure we are doing things, that we are doing it right and we are doing it with good people.

I should tell you, on a personal note -- since I haven't said anything personal -- that when I got married in 1981, upon moving to Good Hope from Quebec, my wife was approached by my nieces, who were then about ten years of age. They asked her if I beat her. It was a matter-of-fact question, "Does he beat you?" She was very taken aback by that. She said, "No, of course he doesn't." The youngest said, "Well, he will, sometime." That was something I have never forgotten. I didn't really know what it meant at the time. We talk about it sometimes because that is the reality for many people who are close to me, in my own family. That is the reality they still see today. Thank you.