Mahsi, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, this being the important year to honour the veterans of Canada and also the 60th anniversary of Victory in Europe, I feel it is important and appropriate to mention all of the NWT veterans who have served our country and that we all owe our gratitude and thankfulness that we can all hear and actively and openly participate in our government operations and management without oppression or any fear of prosecution or darkness.
Madam Speaker, the veterans that we owe our gratitude for this basic human right are:
- • from Fort Smith, Archie Bevington, Edward Sproule, Edward Powder and Theresa Miltenberger;
- • from Inuvik, Marcel Lacert and Art Carriere;
- • from Yellowknife, Jack Adderley, Dusty Miller, Ethel Wilson, Catherine Lovell, Gordon Carter, Dorothy Carter, Brock Parsons, Jan Stirling, Bishop John Sperry, Robert Spence who has since passed on, and Ruth Ann MacEachern-Spence;
- • from Hay River, Ken Hunt, Steve Kovatch, Jerry Eyford, Ross Ullathorne who has since passed on, Frank Hirst, John Lowe, Barney MacNeil and Bert Stephenson;
- • from Norman Wells, Emile Delbrouck;
- • from Fort Resolution, my most respected veteran, my dad, James Villeneuve.