Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I stand here today in regard to the role that we play. It is the 13th Assembly and the reason that most of us got into politics was to represent the people of the north and our constituents. I find it very appalling when I feel like I am from a separate party and a separate province. Mr. Speaker, there are times when we raise issues in this House in relation to issues that affect people in communities, social issues relating to alcohol and drug programs; issues relating to education programs; and also in regard to the economic conditions we find a lot of our regions in. Yet, we raise questions in this House time and time again, to feel that the government, who is the Cabinet, answers back with a conditional no, or basically, sorry, go and find the funding somewhere else. We do not have it in our budget. Yet, Mr. Speaker, we talk about having a unique way of government in the Northwest Territories where we do not have party politics. Sometimes I wonder which party is Cabinet on? Are they basically playing to their own agenda or are they looking at the interests of an institution versus an institution of people? Mr. Speaker, I talk about people with a face, a person, an individual and a person who you see on the street day to day, or an individual who calls us with a concern because they do not work, they are cut off from income support, they are having problems with their educational grants or there are concerns in relationship to issues we raised in this House. We stand up with a good question directed to a Minister and get a flat no as an answer. I believe we are here to represent all the people of the north to change the way this government operates and not go back into the system of being institutionalized where the Cabinet Ministers are solely responsible for their particular departments and not the people we represent. Thank you.

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