Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I, too, would like to add my congratulations and express my faith and trust in you and our Premier-elect and the Members of the Cabinet-elect, whom we will be affirming later on in this 15th Assembly.

I am honoured to have the privilege to serve for a second term as the Member for the riding of Great Slave. Mr. Speaker, I'm here to help build on the foundations of our young territory. I want to help build even better ways of delivering government to our people and strengthen the links of our consensus system among the First Nations, among the communities and among every voter across the NWT.

Later on today, Mr. Speaker, we're going to be affirming the choices we made yesterday and today, and I think Members will agree with me that we're all very grateful that this whole period of elections is just about over, and that there will be very progressive and positive times ahead, Mr. Speaker. We have a great opportunity to show innovation and show confidence in the remarkable future that's before us and I want to state my pledge to continue to work to the very best of my ability on behalf of this legislature and the people of Great Slave. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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