Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wanted to make some comments today about special constituents, if you want to call them that, Neil and Ellen Wilson, from Alviston, Ontario, who are my in-laws. They have been visiting the Northwest Territories since the late 1970s and I wanted to make some special mentions.

I know that when my first daughter was born in 1981, Ellen Wilson came all the way to Fort Good Hope just to check out the community and the living quarters. We lived in a log house at the time with two wood stoves and a water barrel by the back door. We had not built our outhouse yet, but we were working on the plans.

So as you can appreciate, it tested my in-laws tremendously to think that their daughter was going to be doing okay with this man she had just married. My father-in-law visited there and went moose hunting with me at 45 below. We have gone out shooting caribou and skinned them at 35 below. He has been up and down the Mackenzie River by boat, and they have visited Yellowknife a number of times over the years. Neil has gone fishing with George and Ray Tuccaro and I a number of times.

Their son, Dr. Tom Wilson, of Ontario, has also come North to visit and fish. The youngest son, Todd Wilson, was also up earlier this winter ski-dooing with me for a few days. I was not sure that they would be around for the later part of the agenda when we acknowledged visitors in the gallery, so I thought I better get up and acknowledge them. My wife, for the first time, is free to come and visit us. She is sitting in the gallery with her mother, and her father is a little higher up in the gallery. Thank you.

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