Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, with yesterday's session we came to the end of a very difficult budgetary road that we mapped out for ourselves 16 months ago. The amount of work that has been done by this Assembly and the government in this area has been unprecedented. While the process is not over, it is now time to turn our minds and attentions to other initiatives. One initiative I would like to briefly talk about today is going to affect every man, woman, and child in the Northwest Territories. That is the family law bills that are now before this House. We will be going across the Northwest Territories seeking input from the people. Mr. Speaker, there are acts that are going to affect children, families, parents, spouses, single parents, adopted children, there will be no one who is not unaffected by these particular pieces of legislation. It is going to be very important that the communities are aware of this information, they have a chance to look at it, provide input to ourselves, to their MLAs, and to the groups in their communities that are involved in these areas. Mr. Speaker, without a doubt this is the single biggest legislative amendment of this Assembly. It is not a political one. It is not talking about relationships with Ottawa
and looking at constitutions. It is talking about every day life in the communities and how people and families live together. I strongly urge all the MLAs, when they go back to their communities and all the people listening, to seriously look at these particular pieces of legislation. They are very important. The legislation we now have is years and years out of date and often contradicted itself. Now is the chance to make a change that is going to affect everybody beneficially. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.