(Translation unavailable) Mr. Speaker, to translate.
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Mr. Speaker, friends, I took the opportunity to speak my own language briefly. I know that you did not understand what I said but to recognize the greatness of our country, I believe millions of Canadians would have understood what I said. Canada gave my parents the opportunity to afford themselves a living, to raise a family. Myself as a first generation Canadian of Chinese descent, it gave me an opportunity, and again to recognize the diversity of our country to move from Vancouver, a city of approximately two million people, to Cambridge Bay, a community of approximately a thousand people approximately 20 years ago. It gave me an opportunity to work, to live and to raise a family and ultimately be accepted by the community and the opportunity and the honour of representing that community as their Member in this Assembly.
Our country Canada is the only one, I believe, that affords us the opportunity to voice our freedom of speech to the level that we are allowed, to give us the mobility rights to work and to live wherever we want in this great country. It has one of the highest levels of social safety net to protect those residents, those citizens, who need help in the area of health and social services and providing one of the best education levels in the world. In this country as we all know, it is comprised of millions of Canadians, many, of many ethnic backgrounds. One only has to look at the reflection of this in our small Legislature, one of the smallest in Canada, but I believe it has one of the most diverse backgrounds. We have people of Inuit decent, of Inuvialuit decent, of Dene decent, of Metis decent. We have immigrants to this country of Scottish decent, of Irish decent, of Dutch decent. We have Canadians born and raised in the country whether they are from the west coast originally like myself or from the Prairies or from the east coast like some of my honourable colleagues. I think that is just a reflection of the greatness and the diversity of our country. So, I am proud to be Canadian, Mr. Speaker. I am proud to be able to support this motion and I am proud to support this great country that we are all part of. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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