Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I do want to express my appreciation and support and the justification that my colleagues have given for backing this on behalf of injured workers in their constituencies who they know of. Mr. Hawkins indicated that our phones are indeed ready to be answered. I must admit I am feeling a little shy, Mr. Speaker, because I don't have boxes and boxes of files that I will be able to put at the disposal of the Auditor General, because so many of those workers over the years have had to leave the NWT and are living in other parts of Canada because they simply cannot afford to live here and carry on with the diminished capacity to work and the very small returns that they claim they are getting as a result of WCB's handling.

Mr. Speaker, I am going to address a couple of things that the Minister has said. But first of all, I have to say that it is this kind of objection, push back, resistance and denial that we have been receiving through the years and the letters that are demonstrated on the floor of the Assembly again today by the attitude of the Minister. It is very much why I wanted to bring this motion forward because, through the conventional process, the political process, we are just getting nowhere on behalf of injured workers. The Auditor General is an agency that has the credibility and the experience and the authority to go in there and hopefully find out where we are, as the whereases and the wherefores in this fairly extensive motion point out. It is extensive, Mr. Speaker, because it is, in essence, a job description. These are the things that we have heard. These are the things that we want the Auditor General to look into, confirm and sort out for us so that we can get on with it.

Mr. Speaker, the Minister mentioned that the Minister from Nunavut may be upset with this inquiry. That may be so. But I have made some of my own inquiries about Nunavut, and I am finding that their injured workers and Regular Members have issues exactly the same as we do. We do not need to ask the permission of Nunavut to engage in this kind of investigation on behalf of our own workers.