Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members receive survey sheets as part of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business regular poll of political and business leaders on matters of interest to the public.
This week I received results of Mandate West's survey number 174 which was published on February 2nd of this year. I don't always respond to the survey, Mr. Speaker, but I found the results of this one very interesting. One of the four questions on survey number 174 dealt with the issue of the recall of MLAs by their constituents. The question on the survey was: Should the Legislature adopt a system enabling voters to recall their MLAs?
Only people in the Northwest Territories were asked to respond to this particular question, Mr. Speaker. The response was yes, 63 per cent; no, 29 per cent; undecided, eight per cent; no interest on this issue, zero per cent. So everybody was interested.
There is clearly a continuing interest in this issue in the north, Mr. Speaker. I spent the past year working on the recall bill. I've said previously that there is a problem with our current consensus government. I shall be introducing the bill in this session since I believe there is an accountability problem we must all tackle.
Members were uncertain on how to proceed with recall a year ago when I first discussed it with my colleagues. Since then, Mr. Speaker, British Columbia has passed legislation and recall is no longer a strange or unusual concept. Thank you.
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