I thought I would just clarify. I was just repeating her. To the issue, I have to say that I came to this Legislative Assembly to see if I could make a difference. I went from 25 years with one company and sacrificed that to be here. When you leave here, you are not guaranteed that you are going to have a job. There is no guarantee that you are going to get employment out there where you can work towards a pension for yourself.

Like one of my colleagues said, you do not collect this until you are 60 or 65, whatever it is. You do not get it on the day you walk out of here. Being here, I have burned a lot of bridges. I have stood up and asked questions. I have criticized the other side. These are the guys that might be my employers in the future. Will they be my employer? We do not know that.

That is the chance that you take when you come here and you stand up and you ask questions and you criticize how the government works. I have burned bridges within my communities, against my leaders. I stood up for the little guy against the big guys. Those are the guys that might have employed me when I leave. I have burned those bridges. There is no guarantee that I am going to have employment when I leave here. I might have to be on income support and expect clawbacks...

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... every year. Wait until I am 60, then I get my old age security cheque. Then, if I go do a little speech in the school, I may get that clawed back.

There is no guarantee that you are going to have a comfortable life for the rest of your life. We are standing here today. We are looking at doing something that is good for the future of all residents in the Northwest Territories, and we sacrifice good paying jobs to try and make a difference. Should we not be rewarded for that? I think we should be rewarded for the good work we do.

Everyone out there should know that it is not a nine-to-five job. It is a 24-hour job, seven days a week. You get calls in the middle of the night. When they call the RCMP and cannot get a hold of them, they call you. That is in the small communities. That is what we have to work for. In the larger communities, you have 911, or whatever numbers you have. You have all the facilities out here. I get calls in the middle of the night when someone wants a medevac and they do not get a medevac. You get calls for everything. You are the social service worker for everyone in your constituency. If they do not get their way with the local group, they go to you and then you have to go to the government for them.

You are everything. You are an advisor, the ombudsman, is what they call it. We put a lot of time into that. I sacrificed 155 days other than our Legislative Assembly and committees, and that is for my constituents. In the past, other Legislative Assemblies did not have as many committees. They did not have as many days in the Legislative Assembly. We are putting a lot of time in here. We are sacrificing a lot of our own time being away from home. Should we not be rewarded for that? I think we should.

There are so many things that need to be said, but a lot of them were said by some of my colleagues. I have to stand up and support it. There is no guarantee that I am going to get income support. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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