Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I would like to pay tribute to the accomplishments of a constituent by the name of Andrew Dexter. Andrew recently attended the world power lifting championships in Grace, Austria as a junior which is up to 23 years of age. He competed in the 90 kilogram or 198 pound class. This event involves three lifts, the squat, the bench press and the dead lift. The lifter makes three attempts at each lift specifying how much weight he will attempt at that time. The heaviest amount successfully lifted in each style are then totalled to find the overall winner. Mr. Speaker, I am very proud to say that Mr. Dexter, a fine northern boy, in fact, won his weight class and is the world powerlifter in the 198 pound class. I think that is a tremendous accomplishment, he competed against six other continents and to give you a sense of scale, Mr. Speaker, this young man squatted and lifted 634 pounds, he bench-pressed 440 pounds and he deadlifted 672 pounds, for a total of 1,746 pounds. This young man is just a little taller than me, but obviously he is much more powerful. I would like this House to join with me in congratulating Andrew Dexter, we now have a world champion living in the Northwest Territories and he has made us all proud. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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