Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I, like all my colleagues, am supporting this motion. I haven't known Mr. Hamilton for too long. Actually, I have known Mr. Hamilton for a while. Back in the days when the Legislative Assembly was in the Yellowknife Inn building here, I used to be his gopher. Running around town, picking up things, doing photocopying before they had the machines today.
I appreciate Mr. Hamilton's wisdom. Being a new Member I went to him on many occasions for advice. When you're selected to chair a special committee that's reviewing very emotional subjects such as official languages and culture I think David's assistance throughout the whole process was much appreciated by myself and my colleagues on the committee.
In that sense, Mr. Speaker, David has touched a lot of lives and through that work will touch a lot more lives in the years to come. The consensus government system is something that needs a lot of TLC and over the last 20 years that consensus government has been attacked in one form or another and, I think consistently, David has helped massage the whole process so that it's one of the better systems that we see in Canada when dealing with democratic systems.
David has, like I said, touched a lot of lives in the Northwest Territories. Not only the Northwest Territories, but in Nunavut as well. I'm pretty sure the people in Nunavut would appreciate me thanking David on their behalf, as well, today. I'd like to thank David for his 20 plus years of service on behalf of my constituents, the people of Lutselk'e and Deninu Kue. I'm sure that at one time or another their lives have been affected by what David has done in this House. What happens in this House has an effect on everything in the Northwest Territories in one form or another.
So, David, on behalf of my constituents, thank you very much. Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker.
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