Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Previous to the Berger inquiry in 1974, I had the occasion to work with Alice Masuzumi of Fort Good Hope, who just passed away last week at the age of 70. We did the work to provide information to the people of Fort Good Hope and Colville Lake regarding positions and presentations to be made to the Berger inquiry. She did the bulk of the work on a very professional and confidential basis, speaking with many of the elders, taping them. To this day, Mr. Speaker, I have never had the occasion to hear many of the tapes she made with those elders because she treated them as strictly confidential. They are invaluable if they still exist in this world. I remember after the Berger inquiry took place in Good Hope, which was heard all across Canada on the national news and on TV, I remember her coming to talk to me about it after the hearings were over. She laughed and she cried. She celebrated and just rejoiced about the tremendous impact that she thought we had made in our own way to help all the Dene and Metis of Good Hope, to have the confidence and clarity to make the statements and the presentations they did during the course of the hearings. She was a tremendous friend. She was a single mother who raised her children, sons and daughters, who today are making major contributions to better the lives of the people in Good Hope.

She was always known to be a good friend, not only to the elders, but the young as well and able to relate and communicate with everyone. She had friends up and down the valley, I am sure everyone will be missing her. On a personal note, she was always taking great pride and joy in telling everyone she was the one who attended to my mother at our trapping camp in Yelta Lake in the winter of 1950. I was born there. She was always taking credit for single handedly attending to my mother in delivering me at my birth. That has always been our own little personal way of relating to one another. I talk to my children about it and throughout the Sahtu they have always known that about her. I wanted to make that comment and share that with everyone today. The funeral will be taking place in Fort Good Hope this afternoon. Thank you.