Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Before I start, I would like to send greetings back to my wife and children. Mr. Speaker, I believe we have come a long way in the past two and a half years. One can say much has been accomplished. We can now focus on where we would like to go as a government. This alone sounds like good news. We should be sending a positive message out to the people we represent. After all, the people of the north have for far too long had to make due with much less than everybody has become accustomed to in the past two and a half years. It is time for some stability. It is time to mark out a path that we will travel in the upcoming months and year. Once a path has been marked out, we should follow it through. This after all Mr. Speaker, is how the people of this great country measure our accountability. They watch to see if what we say as a government is the same as what we do.
For two and a half years, we have been sending a message out to the people of the north that we must operate in a more efficient manner than was done before all this done to protect the future of our children and grandchildren. Many have accepted this, and many still question the route chosen but all watch to see if we practise what we preach. Mr. Speaker, I was chosen to represent the people of Inuvik and for two years much of the info and news I brought back to the people of Inuvik was not good news. For two years I was a messenger of this government and just when it looks like we have good news to share with the people I represent, they start asking, why did we go through all the reductions for the past two years.
Mr. Speaker, recent decisions of this government have been scrutinized by Members of this House and by the press. Now the people we represent are asking or questioning, why did we go through all the reductions and changes, just to see things go back to the old ways of doing business. Mr. Speaker, it is time to set the record straight, line-up all the cans and clear the air. In closing, Mr. Speaker, let not the seed of doubt grow like a weed for once it surfaces, it soon takes over all the good work of the gardener. Thank you.