Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to raise a question, or give my comments on what I feel takes part in this House. Mr. Speaker, I know a lot of people who watch from other communities and from the city of Yellowknife, this program being broadcast. They see only a portion of what happens here. They do not see the other things that happen within our other meetings, committee meetings, practices, or in our offices. What they do see is what is said here in the House. Mr. Speaker, I think, as Members of the Legislative Assembly, we have to be very careful with what we say in this House and how we present it, because many people out there see only this, only what is being said at the time we are here. They take that to be the truth.
Mr. Speaker, I think a lot of things we say around here tend to be in colourful prose and using different words to try and explain something, but I raise on the point of concern that we need to, as Members, be careful with what we say here and try and represent what we are saying in the most truthful way there is. There has been many a time when people have listened to what has happened in this House and other meetings that are put out, and when you only hear a portion of what is being said, as opposed to exactly what is happening.
I think we have to be careful. I think we need to point out at certain times that we need to be accurate with what we are saying, and I know I have said things that I have heard in committee meetings that somebody said something else to me. But I grow concerned that, from time to time, we say a few things at this level, whether inadvertently or not, but can mislead the public in general.
Mr. Speaker, I have heard in other meetings about how things are said can make other people react. I think we are well aware of this. We have been in here a year and I would say that, as Members, we need to watch the way we present ourselves so that we are providing the accurate information to those people we represent. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
