Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As I did when it first came up in the House here, I did oppose this and I still oppose it, but I was going to go along with the rest of the Members as to which way they voted. As an aboriginal we have other avenues of taking care of our own, as I said, aboriginal adoptions. I am not sure how they are going to do it, but I think that there are places you can negotiate it into your land claims on self-government. Just listening to Mr. Roland, I must say that we are putting these children into an area where we are giving them a chance to be an orphan early in their lives when no one can take care of them.

We are putting them into a lifestyle where they have no choice as to which gender they wish to choose for a partner in their future life because as everyone knows a child follows, listens and does what a father does. If you do something a certain way, the way you walk, the way you do things, a child will do the same thing. I do things the way my dad did. I am sure he did it the way his dad did it. I have to tell you that they are watching what you do because in the home right now, what you say you have to watch your language, you have to watch what you do because the child will take everything you do and do the same as what you do.

Right now just even the medical facts that are out there with respect to same-sex relationships it might be a good relationship but we find out just by going through all the medical documents they all have a short lifespan - 20 years less than the heterosexuals. For the best interests of the child, I must say that this is not very good legislation that we are going to be putting in place. I think this is the time to say, do we need to follow Canada because we are the Northwest Territories. We can make our own laws. We do not need Canada to tell us what to do. Maybe we need to go to court. Maybe this is something that is very important. Maybe this is important enough to go to court. Maybe it is as important as the Friends of Democracy because we are dealing with people's futures here. The future of our future leaders. The young people that are going to be out there.

If we are going to shorten their lives by 20 years each, what are we looking at -- maybe the end of mankind or of the human species. I would like to say that I will vote against it, and I ask the rest of the Members in this House that they vote against this too because this is very important legislation, and I think that without talking to the rest of the Territories we are going ahead with it. We can defeat it today and bring it back to the people. Thank you.