Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to also recognize this week as being Seniors' Week. Coming from my Dene background, as you know, our elders play a key role in our society; not only in Dene, but society in general. So I'd like to recognize and say mahsi, thank you to all the elders for the work that you've done to prepare us here in the North. I'm speaking specifically about the Dene in the Deh Cho. The elders in the Deh Cho government play a big key role. As you know, publicly there's going to be a Deh Cho assembly coming up in Kakisa pretty soon, and the elders are going to be screening the different candidates that are going to be putting their names forward to see whether they're living a suitable lifestyle according to the elders. From that process the candidates will be selected to be Grand Chief of the Deh Cho. In this way, in our culture and in other cultures in the North as well, we place our elders, the seniors in a very important role. We continue to do that in the North and we should continue to do that, because for the elders we are very young here. Some of us are very, very young and some of aren't that young, but we are getting closer to being seniors as well. In fact, one Member here says he has his membership paid up. So we are in the age of getting closer as well. But the point here, Mr. Speaker, is that our elders are there. They are there for us and I would like to commend the Minister and the department and all the different agencies that help the elders to play a meaningful role here in the North and we will continue to do so. Mahsi to all the elders and seniors. Mahsi.

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