Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Sometimes I think it's important that we, kabloonas, also talk about our language and culture, what's left of it. Today being Friday, I would like to talk a little about acronyms and it may take me a little more than my allotted time, I should warn Members. But, now that you're in the chair, Mr. Speaker, we have a little more time on Fridays than we would otherwise have.

Acronyms, these little devices are peculiar to my first language, which is English. As far as I know, they aren't employed by the aboriginal people of the Northwest Territories. Once again, the aboriginal people have achieved simplicity and elegance in refusing to use acronyms in place of confusion and incoherence. But for the sake of those who are blessed by not having English as their first language, I will explain what an acronym is. An acronym is made up of the first letters of words which make up an expression. I first came across the use of acronyms as a young boy when people started calling me DP instead of Dennis Patterson.

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I thought that was quite flattering and it was being used fondly, until I found out that DP is actually often an uncomplimentary term for a displaced person.

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Mr. Speaker, I have to say that so far, I haven't had very much influence. At a recent meeting of the Nunavut Caucus with the Nunavut Implementation Commission...