Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise on replies to opening address because I need to take this opportunity to alert the public about the very serious and grave situation that is happening in this House.

Mr. Speaker, I want to tell the people out there that what is happening in this House is nothing short of a palace coup. The words I use are palace coup.

Mr. Speaker, the instrument of this palace coup is the committee report filed on Tuesday and the committee report that was discussed yesterday. I think the people who need to answer to these actions are the authors of this report.

Mr. Speaker, I believe it is very clear who has written the report and in the interest of the public -- the members of the committee: a committee chaired by Brendan Bell, MLA for Yellowknife South; Mr. Roland, deputy chairman, MLA for Inuvik Boot Lake; Mr. Leon Lafferty, MLA for North Slave; Honourable Joseph Handley, MLA for Weledeh; and Mr. J. Michael Miltenberger, MLA for Thebacha.

Mr. Speaker, I say this because I believe the people out there need to know what is going on and this is only my account of what I see. It is up to the individuals in this House to answer the questions that I pose here or as a result of what I am saying in this House.

Mr. Speaker, this morning we had a Caucus meeting in the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Speaker, there was a suggestion this morning by a member of this committee that while we were discussing the process on how to select a new Minister, there was a suggestion that in the ballot to select a new Minister...