Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I stand to support this bill. I think this bill is something that the Tlicho people are looking forward to. They've worked on it for a long time. As you know, there was a ratification vote in June where over 80 percent of the people wanted this, and that's the majority that wanted this self-government legislation to go forward. I know it's unfair of me to ask my colleagues to push it through as fast as they can, but still this is the wish of the people.
The other thing that I'd like to add is that there has been a lot of consultation out there over the 12 years. There have been draft documents that were shared with the Cabinet. Cabinet has full knowledge of all those documents that have passed through them. We've seen some of them. I've shared some of the documents with the Special Committee on Self-Government so they know what we're going to be looking forward to. But those were all just drafts. They couldn't discuss it or make decisions on it because they were just a special committee on the sunset clause, which sort of affected the self-government area, and that was one of the reasons it was put there.
So I have to say I support this and that later on today I will be seeking unanimous consent to move it into Committee of the Whole so we can speed it up as much as we can to the wishes of the Tlicho people. Thank you.