Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to complement the actions of the mayor and hamlet council of Holman for their efforts and determination to work closely with the GNWT Division Secretariat over the last few months to assure the residents of Holman are not adversely effected by division in April 1999. The Mayor, Mr. Gary Bristow, and council have had numerous meetings with officials of GNWT departments to assure a smooth transition of government services from the Kitikmeot regional office to the Inuvik regional office. On behalf of the residents of Holman, I wish to thank the Honourable Kelvin Ng and the Honourable Jim Antoine, for travelling to the community of Holman in July of this year to meet with the hamlet council to discuss division issues, as well as other O and M and capital projects.
Mr. Speaker, I encourage officials from all the departments to continue to work closely with the mayor and council, as well as myself as the MLA for Nunakput on the ongoing divisional issues. I wish to thank the Premier, Honourable Don Morin for his assistance in this matter as well. I hope the end result will be a community that will experience a minimum of negative impacts resulting from division into two new territories. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.