Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wonder sometimes where this government gets its direction. We spent $1.2 million on an Official Languages Act review. The taxpayers of this territory and this country paid for it. One of the things we found out is that the Government of the Northwest Territories has failed and continues to fail in the implementation and meaning of the Official Languages Act of the Northwest Territories. As far as I am concerned, the amendments to the new act that they are going to be introducing are not worth the paper they are written on. What they are doing is crossing the t's and dotting the i's: capitalizing territorial government, Premier or other wording; identifying the Minister responsible who has apparently been the Minister responsible for years and years. There is no accountability of the Department of Health and Social Services to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. There is no accountability of the Department of Justice to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment when he is responsible for the Official Languages Act.

The people of the Northwest Territories put great faith in the special committee when we went to almost every community, met with every regional aboriginal government, met with the francophone communities. We made some solid recommendations, 65 recommendations with a management plan and a budget for implementation so that we could make it as easy as possible for this government to introduce this. What they have introduced, Mr. Speaker, is not worth the paper it is written on, as far as I am concerned.

We are losing aboriginal languages, we are losing our languages at one percent a year in some regions. As far north as the Inuvialuit, Inuinnaqtun and the Gwich'in languages they are losing faster than that. But there is the political and social will in those communities to reinvest their time, energy and knowledge in listening so the languages can be brought back to be used in the communities, in their homes, in the educational system. This goes nowhere near helping these individuals, these political organizations, these cultural organizations and these language communities to do so.

How can we, with a straight face, go to Ottawa and say, devolve responsibility of this government, when we are failing miserably in implementing one act that we agreed to take on, Mr. Speaker? How could I have faith in this government when they do not even listen to their own constituents? Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement. Thank you.