Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a Member's statement I'd like to do today as MLA for Nahendeh. I just wanted to say that in my riding I have six communities and I work with the different chiefs and councils that are there. I just wanted to mention that there have been some changes since June since we last met, in my riding, and I just wanted to mention the newly-elected people.
In Fort Simpson, the chief is Keyna Norwegian, and John Tsetso is the sub-chief, with Judy Sabourin, Kevin Menicoche, Maurice Tanche, Hazel Isiah-Tanche, Loyal Letcher, Dennis Nelner and Ethel Lamothe as the council in Liidlii Kue First Nation.
In Fort Liard, in the Acho Dene Koe, Floyd Bertrand is the chief there, elected with Guy Berreault, Charles Bertrand, Joe Bertrand, Stanley Bertrand, Gordon Timbre, and Janna Deneron as the youth delegate.
In the summertime, the Deh Cho leadership also had gone through some leadership elections and I just wanted to mention here for the House, that Herb Norwegian is the grand chief of the Deh Cho First Nation. Herb has been involved with the Deh Cho First Nation government for over 25 years, and has been instrumental in gathering traditional land use and occupancy information from the region. He has been chairing the Land Use Planning Committee in the Deh Cho territory so he has extensive experience in that whole area of land, hunting and being out on the land.
So I just wanted to mention here, Mr. Speaker, that in our work as MLAs we have to work with the First Nations in our respective ridings, and that they truly provide a lot of leadership in the communities and it has been a real pleasure working with them over the years. Thank you.
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