Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I, too, would like to take this opportunity to thank my constituents to have the opportunity to have been their voice in this Legislative Assembly for the last four years. I have served two terms.
Mr. Speaker it's not often we get to thank the people who have put us here, but today I would like to do that, especially the elders, the youth, the community leaders and those people who we serve everyday. Mr. Speaker, without having that connection to the people we serve and having the ability to be able to contact them and help them out with their problems, their issues, and our community leaders have challenges along with us to assist them to improve the lives of those people who we serve. That is key. We are here to serve the people, not for them to serve us. It's an opportunity that one is blessed with to be able to do that.
Mr. Speaker, I have always strived to improve the lives of the people I serve in the Mackenzie Delta communities and to be able to stand here knowing that when I speak, I am not speaking for myself, I am speaking because someone has asked me to raise an issue, to make a problem either go away with the help of the Ministers on the other side and not just stand here and rant and rave day in and day out and hope someone is listening. Mr. Speaker, I think it's important that that opportunity we have to serve also means we, as a government, have to change the whole system. We have to ensure that we are listening as elected officials and that the government across the hall is hearing what we are saying.
Mr. Speaker, it has been a real honour to serve two terms in this House for the people of the Mackenzie Delta and deal with the challenges we have and the many we have ahead of us such as pipeline development, self-government arrangements...
Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.
