Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I attended a recent meeting of the Nunavut Caucus with the Nunavut Implementation Commission and the executive of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated and there were also officials of the Division Review Committee and the Special Joint Committee on Division present. Or maybe I should say at the meeting with the NIC, NTI, the DRC and the SJCD.

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That meeting was held in YK in the LA, by the way. I learned at that meeting of a completely new acronym which has been devised by the capable bureaucrats who are assisting the NIC in planning Nunavut. This one had me completely flummoxed. I had to stop and ask what this term meant. As far as I can see, this is a completely new acronym invented by the Nunavut planners. I must, therefore, announce that my impression is that rather than banning acronyms, Nunavut is likely to inflict more of them upon us.

I will tell you about this new acronym. Just as everyone has become familiar with what a PY is -- I think you all know that a PY is actually an acronym for a person year -- they can be half people too, or as we learned the other day in the...