Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as a Member of this Legislative Assembly for Nahendeh I want to acknowledge the congratulations from all the Members here today for me taking this plunge and to being the Premier here. I would like to thank everybody here. I would also like to thank Stephen Kakfwi for doing a campaign here and speaking out. I would also like to thank all the Members that ran for the position of Minister and as well as congratulating Mr. Floyd Roland.

As well I would like to wish you all a merry Christmas and season's greetings. I would like to extend that as well to my constituents, to my communities of Jean Marie River, Nahanni Butte, Trout Lake, Wrigley, Fort Liard and Fort Simpson, to everybody that is out there in the communities. I also wanted to say that the holiday season is the time to be with your families, a time to be with your own people in your own communities. I would like to say that we have gone through really tough times here. Even today we had an example of it here with the tragedies and events that come back to people and that are having a big effect on us here. I would like to maybe say that, let us go home, visit our families, relax, think over the issues, talk to people, recharge your batteries because we still have some commitments to conclude for the rest of our term here. With that, I would like to say Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

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