Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would just like to make a few comments on the Review of Rewriting the Liquor Laws.

As Members are aware, three years ago, motions were passed and then work was done by the Beaufort-Delta regional leaders in trying to get some changes made to the liquor laws to allow them to issue permits on amounts of booze or liquor that an individual can buy. There is a lot of concern in those communities about bootlegging and the quantities of liquor that an individual can purchase, and I am very pleased to see that the committee has addressed these in the report.

I am also very pleased to see that they have addressed the issue of increased control at the community level. This is one area where the communities, especially those in the northwestern area of the territories, really feel strongly that they should have more say and more authority to control the flow or sale of liquor within their boundaries.

The report didn't address all the issues that were in the legislative action paper but I assume, by not addressing them, that the committee was in favour of a lot of the issues that were raised in the action paper. I know that in the public hearings many of these were addressed by a lot of the presenters and we all understand that not everybody agrees on every issue and there may not be a definitive way to deal with each issue. But generally there was consensus on items raised that many are contentious, and in the act we have to have ways of dealing with these issues.

So those are some of the comments. I just wanted to give acknowledgement to the leaders in the Beaufort-Delta communities that we are getting closer to making the things that they raised law and, hopefully early in the next Legislative Assembly when the act is finally drafted, the issues that they've raised will be included in the new law. Thank you very much.