Thank you, Madam Speaker. I was disappointed when we met at our planning committee in Cambridge Bay that we didn't discuss an issue on our order paper about the changes we could possibly make in our style of government. We keep on talking about constitutional development and yet the government we have is not the people's government, it's a government, in fact, that's figured out by 24 people. And there's been no real public debate about the form of consensus we have. It's something we decide among ourselves. This is the way we're going to do it. It seems to me that we're turning a blind eye towards the evolution of our consensus type of system so it can work better than it is.

There has been a proposal made by several people, which we no longer seem to want to discuss, about strengthening the form of government by choosing our Government Leader through a public vote throughout the territories. This could result in a more cohesive Cabinet because along with that election of a Government Leader there would be the power of a leader to choose her own Cabinet. It would be a more coherent government policy. The government would be accountable to the people, not just to the 24 of us. And it would give the leader a bit more power.

I'm not advocating this. All I'm saying, Madam Speaker, is that we seem not to want to discuss it. We want to discuss all these huge issues, yet our government and the way it's evolving we don't want to talk about. We just want to keep it within our walls so there's no public debate. Perhaps this forum could be used for the public to discuss how we should evolve, rather than to wait for things to happen. Thank you very much.