Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For the last two days the local Internet service providers, the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Ardicom consortium have been meeting at the Explorer to try to iron out concerns and difficulties surrounding the digital network and the role the Internet providers would provide at the community level.
I would like to thank the government for honouring their commitment to, in fact, bring all these people to the table. I think it has been a very fruitful meeting. I managed to attend some of the sessions, both yesterday and today. I can report to this House there was very frank discussion. Though there was, I believe, tempers raised at some points, everybody did stay at the table. There will be a final report with recommendations coming out to the government and to those MLAs who are affected who have constituents that are service providers. So I would hope we could move forward from this very important meeting and that the government will see this as an investment to further develop a strategic plan for delivery of communication related to data base and Internet services across the north for all people.
In closing, Mr. Speaker, if I may ask the liberty to wish all my colleagues and the people of the Northwest Territories in my constituents a very merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year. As well, my own personal heartfelt condolences to the Minister of Finance on the death of his son. Thank you.