Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to read a press release from Family Services in Yellowknife, entitled "Re-discovering Family Strengths" and it is in honour of National Family Week from October 7th to 13th, 1996.

"This week we celebrate National Family Week. We join with Family Services Canada and local family service agencies across Canada including our own NWT Family Services to re-discover family strengths and to reinforce family strengths for our own sakes, for the sake of our children and their children and beyond.

We seek to re-discover and celebrate the ways families support and help their members through life's many changes, through life's joys and sorrows.

We seek to rediscover the basics of what families are all about, caring, nurturing, supporting and developing the potential of all their members.

This rediscovery belongs to all of us. To the families themselves and the individuals who belong to them, to the institutions and agencies who serve them in health and education and all the other areas, to communities, to employers, to governments, to all of us working together.

In the words of poet, D.H. Lawrence, "I am part of the sun, as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth, my feet know perfectly and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my very own self I am part of my family."

So let us all together, during this National Family Week, and all year long rediscover and celebrate the strengths and achievements of our families. The strengths and achievements of your family and all families in your community.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.