Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today my statement is on elders. Over the weekend, the Dogrib Nation laid to rest one of their respected elders. His name was Moise Martin. The Dogrib Nation changed their negotiation updates, changed their plans out of respect for this elder.

One of his achievements was to put on his snowshoes in Rae-Edzo and lead the dogs on the dog-team trail, the dog-team caravan, you might call it, up to one lake past Lac de Gras. He did this with no one else substituting for him or helping him. That is a good achievement. Now, it is even hard to do it with a snowmobile, but in those days, he did it with a pair of snowshoes. Sometimes it is very hard to talk of things like this.