Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Ningark makes a good point and that is the people that are also very much affected by this motion are the people of Whale Cove. I do not have any indication of what their feeling is but if we use common sense and if you look at the map, what do you think? If their MLA is from Arviat then the MLA would be less than 100 kilometres away and in line and in direct transportation link to the community. In fact, if they are paired up with Arviat, they will now be paired up with another community with a lesser population than what they are paired up with now which is Rankin Inlet. So therefore, you could just make the deduction and say that perhaps as far as time with the MLA goes that if you look at per capita for the MLA they would likely get some more attention. Not to say that they are not getting any attention now.
In closing I will not touch again on what I talked about earlier. I wanted to comment on the representation by population that the MLA from Kivallivik had talked about and that is there are indications in the report that was a consideration. But certainly it is not the only consideration that the commission looked into. In their terms of reference, we the Legislative Assembly, told them to also look at the rate of growth of the population, the accessibility, any special community diversity of interest of inhabitants of any part of Nunavut or any other similar or relevant factors the commission considers appropriate.
There are a whole bunch of things that you could throw in there. But if you just compare what the current NWT does and that is in many of the national forums whether it is Premiers' conferences or Ministers' conferences, we now have a seat at many of these tables and Mr. Ng will be going to the Social Services Ministers meeting in Newfoundland next week. We are invited to sit in the council of Fisheries Ministers and it is because we are recognized as a jurisdiction.
If Canada was run only by population there would be no way that we would be recognized. We would not have a seat, we would not even be heard. So I think that is a very good example on how there are deviations from this representation by population argument. I am not a lawyer, so, excuse me if I do not make too much sense, but that is my own humble interpretation of that. With that, I thank everybody for their support.
