Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, just to make sure that I do not get ruled out of order for talking on too many subject areas in my Member's statement today, I would like to title my statement as an "Accountability Report to my Constituents" and use this opportunity to inform them about what I have been doing on their behalf over the last 24 hours.
You will see that I am doing this because I have learned that a good many people out there watch us on TV, including my mother, and I would not want anyone to think that I do not think the topic of water is unimportant. It is just that this is my fancy way of explaining why I do not have a state-of-the-art speech written on water and arsenic that I was hoping to write.
So before I go into my account, I would like to thank the Members for bringing this important issue to the fore, especially my colleagues from Yellowknife. I would also like to state that I have raised these issues in the House previously.
Just to get to my statement, I would just like to report to my constituents that I attended a Social Programs Committee meeting where we discussed a literacy strategy with the literacy council. I hope I am not saying anything out of school here.
This morning, Mr. Speaker, I had an opportunity to drop in at the Dene Nation National Assembly for a couple of hours to listen to the debates that were going on, which I found very informative and helpful. They were making great progress while I was there and united positions seemed to be building there.
At noon today, I attended a meeting of the Special Committee on the Sunset Clause, the result of which I hope to be reporting to the House soon. Still, we have a lot of meetings going around the clock and I managed to miss a meeting at lunch time because I could not be in two places at once. I just want to make sure that my constituents do not think that I am falling asleep on my job and not caring about the water issue.
Once again, I would like to thank the Members for bringing this issue forward. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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