Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Prior to becoming a Member of the Legislative Assembly, I was a band counsellor and a counsellor with the Dene Community Council of Fort Resolution. So, I have some political experience at the local level. Even at the municipal and local political level of our communities, when people get letters from constituents or people they are elected to represent that are unsigned, they don't deal with them. They put them to the side because anybody can write anything about anybody or say anything about a citizen of the Northwest Territories, but if they don't have the responsibility to sign their name to a letter it shouldn't be dealt with.
I know that, as Members of this Assembly, we have a responsibility to work on behalf of all people of the Northwest Territories. When people raise an issue with me in my constituency, I take the concern down and try to work on it. But, I always look at the other side of the story, and you cannot do that if a person makes a complaint and you don't know who it is. So, it is better not to deal with it.
I don't think, in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, we should be dealing with hearsay or rumours if people don't have the respect to sign letters. There's no way that at any time in this House we should be able to table unsigned documents, especially if they are character assassinations. We shouldn't table those documents, out of respect. We all have to do our job and do it with respect to the public, and I don't think by tabling letters that are unsigned that we are showing respect for the public. Thank you.