Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we as a Legislature, appointed the Nunavut Electoral Boundaries Commission on March 7, 1997. Mr. Chairman, because we are the government of the day, we are given the task of appointing an Electoral Boundaries Commission in the Nunavut area to oversee or to consult with the people of Nunavut. Mr. Chairman, if we have to try and please every person and follow the wish of every community, we would see that every community is a riding on its own. It is very difficult to please everyone. For that reason, not every community, not every MLA and not every region will be happy with the decision we are about to make today or in the next session day, that is Monday. We are not able to conclude the item on the table. Mr. Chairman, I personally want to commend the Nunavut Electoral Boundary for doing a job that not many of us would be pleased to do, but it has to be done.

Mr. Chairman. the concern from the Kitikmeot leadership forum which I attended about three or four days ago was that the ceiling was unfortunate. The commission that was given the task of consulting with the people and making recommendations to the House of how many ridings, the name of ridings and so on that would be in Nunavut has only had three members. One chairman and two respected members from two different regions, one from Baffin and the other from Keewatin. The concern of the Kitikmeot leadership forum was that there was no membership from the Kitikmeot region. Therefore, the Kitikmeot leadership felt that some of its concerns were not addressed in the report, but I have told the Kitikmeot leadership that every community that was visited was given the same opportunity to have an input into the report of the Nunavut Electoral Boundaries. I told the Kitikmeot leadership that my input into the report was by no means lesser or bigger than theirs. I think as directed by the government, the Electoral Boundaries Commission took every effort given the area and given the elements. They made every effort to visit every community in the Nunavut area.

Mr. Chairman, the Nunavut government to be will have the power, the mandate and legislative power to make changes to the structure of Nunavut once that government is given the mandate to run in the Nunavut area. What we are doing now I do not believe is going to be there forever. I believe that because we happen to be the government of today in a transition before the division, that we were given the task as I indicated earlier to either approve, reject or amend the Report of the Nunavut Electoral Boundary Commission. I believe that in order to show that we respect the decision that we have taken by appointing the Commission, I have just come to full content. I have no problem, but there are some of the things that I would have wanted to see changed or be different but since we cannot, Mr. Chairman, afford to have a different riding in every community, I can live with the report itself although there will be some motions. I will make a motion later on. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.