Mr. Speaker, thank you very much. To the motion here is that my constituents didn't indicate any interest in supporting a motion like this and for me I'm not going to be supporting this motion. There are a couple things that are kind of leading me in this direction that are contrary right now to the aim of the claimant groups in my Nahendeh riding. As well, I believe that we are also asking the wrong question with this motion. It's kind of like what has been happening back home with the change of village to hamlet status. People are saying let's do this change, but the proper information is not available for the people to make an informed decision. I believe something of this nature is well worth reviewing. People should know about it and must know about it, because what's going to happen is we're going to have to waste a lot of time and resources and energy from our government to pursue this, much like a simple thing like the name change that happened at the last Assembly which used up lots of resources and money and it really didn't get anywhere.
I don't want to use the resources that our government has pursuing this right now because, as I said, I believe that we asked the wrong question. Perhaps we should be asking if there is a better way to facilitate how our government has relations with the federal government. In that respect, it's 2004 right now and, yes, we have people in Ottawa who are still suffering from what I like to call colonial hang over. We're still subjects of the Crown and they're still treating us that way. Yes, it's time to change that.
Some of the ways are to look at that relationship. We're technically a department of the Department of Indian and Northern Development and that has to change. That's something that our government should be charged with.
I believe that this motion is not going to address that adequately. With that, I'd like to thank Mr. Speaker for the opportunity to speak to this motion. Mahsi cho.