Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this weekend is Caribou Carnival weekend in Yellowknife. Fort Caribou opens today at noon and will operate through Sunday. This is Yellowknife's annual winter -_ some might say spring -- festival, but the outside temperature doesn't really lead us to believe that it is spring yet.

Mr. Speaker, one of the premier events of the weekend will be the Canadian Championship Dog Derby, which is managed by the Yellowknife Rotary Club. That race kicks off today; three 50-mile heats that will start today at 12:30 and on Saturday and Sunday, the race begins at noon each day.

Caribou Carnival includes activities for all. We have snowmobile races, fireworks, ice carving contests, northern games on the ice stage and there will be special events for young people. As Mr. Henry has already talked about in the early part of his statement, one of the best spectator sports of the weekend will happen at 2:00 this afternoon, which is the hockey game between the MLAs and the media.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to extend a vote of thanks to the large corps of volunteers who put together Caribou Carnival this year. They are headed by Mr. Mike Kalnay and they have put in hundreds of hours of volunteer time to pull this carnival off. I wish them well. I would like to invite all Members and all members of the public to participate in events this weekend and enjoy the hospitality of Yellowknifers and the fun that helps warm our late winter weekend, no matter what the temperature is outside. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.