Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for finally recognizing me. I thank the Member for Yellowknife South for making his statement very short.
Mr. Speaker, I believe we will have a lot of discussion on the budget in this House in coming days. Today, I would like to take this opportunity to tell my constituents and everyone out there about a very exciting communications tool that I launched yesterday, which is my website. The address is www.sandyleemla.com.
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Mr. Speaker, as you are well aware, we as MLAs are constantly bombarded with information. We receive mountains of papers, documents, letters, faxes and a basket full of e-mails daily. We just received one more here.
We may be surprised to learn that some of them are actually really good stuff. My challenge has been to find a way to disseminate and communicate some of that to the constituents, and other interested parties of the public in a speedy fashion.
At the same time, Mr. Speaker, I have often found I am not always able to get a quick input and feedback from my constituents on issues that matter to them. Not as much as I would like to, anyway. After all, Mr. Speaker, everyone else is busy too and I can only make so many phone calls and have so many lunches in any given week.
This website, Mr. Speaker, I must also say has been inspired by a number of Range Lakes constituents I met during my door-to-door campaign. I remember a resident on Finlayson Drive who asked me if you get elected, "how would you keep in touch with your voters?" Another resident on Magrum Crescent told me that although she does not have time to go to meetings, she usually spends a few minutes on her computer at home.
Most importantly, Mr. Speaker, anyone who has visited my website will see that I have dedicated a full section of the site to the kids in our Territory, with a banner that says "kids are the greatest."
In it, I have pictures from kids from not only Range Lake and Range Lake North School, but from Fort Providence and anywhere else where I meet kids throughout my travels. It is my greatest hope that kids from all over the North will make this site a place to visit and to learn about what we do in this House.
I am pleased to report to you, Mr. Speaker, that e-mails and feedback I have been receiving so far show that it is doing exactly what I wanted it to do. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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