Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of reasons why this would be the case, to strengthen ties, but Ministers who come from Yellowknife need to develop and strengthen stronger ties with the whole community of the North, the communities. I think there are Members, seven of them come from Yellowknife, and I think there are people out in the communities who need to know them. The Ministers living in Yellowknife need to know our communities.

The only opportunities that Ministers from Yellowknife have is on duty travel. If they have a portfolio, that is the only time they can go is if their duties allow them to go into the communities. This way, I think that there is great opportunity for Ministers, even though it is not in their portfolio, to attend functions throughout the North.

There are different ways of doing it. You can use your own home travel as an MLA, but that is not MLA business. It is government official business to attend a funeral of a respected elder or a former colleague or a great event like a social event that you would like to attend. I think there is a great opportunity here to allow Ministers from Yellowknife to get to know people in the communities much closer, not only at official functions and meetings, but through social settings and other types of events that happen throughout the North.

We are all invited to them I think whenever we have a chance this gives it a better opportunity for Ministers from Yellowknife to go to the communities.