Thank you, Madam Speaker. Today I would like to use this opportunity to congratulate all of the participants who are entered into the Arctic Winter Games. And to use this time, as well, to wish them well as some of them are on their way already to Slave Lake, as I understand it, and will be gathering there at the end of this week to meet some pretty stiff competition from the Yukon and Alaska. The young people participating in these games come from every region in the territories, and almost every community. They represent all ages and they compete in all of the different challenges that will be at the Arctic Winter Games.

In spite of the differences of where they come from and the competitions they will be entered into, they all share one thing, Madam Speaker, and that's sportsmanship. They share the spirit of fair play that goes along with and makes the Arctic Winter Games what they are, truly northern. Regardless of the outcome in the numbers of medals they bring back for us, our hearts will be with them. Those of us who won't be able to be there as they compete against each other, will watch them on the television and hear them on the radio. And they will know that we are supporting them and that they'll be doing their very best.

On behalf of all the constituents of Yellowknife South, to those athletes who will be there, I wish them the best of luck.

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