Thank you, Madam Chair. Of course, I too will be voting in favour of this amendment. Madam Chair, I will not repeat my comments earlier, but to reiterate what I believe was a good recommendation made to this Assembly by the boundaries commission. It reflects that there are changes going on within our society and our communities and our demographics, and that it is incumbent on us to recognize those and strive to do the best we can to ensure that the idea of proportional representation is done to the best of our ability with the obvious considerations that we have, which we already gave to the commission, of language, of geography, of culture, of distance. These are valid things.

Madam Chair, a resident of Yellowknife recently wrote to Members of the Assembly and has given us a very strong endorsement of the principle of proportional representation. I'm going to quote very briefly from his letter, Madam Chair. He says that, "opponents of a more populously proportional distribution assert that seven Assembly Members are adequate to serve the needs of the Yellowknife's constituents. This is not the issue. The

issue is that when the most basic expression of the democratic will is called, and that is a vote by a Member in the Assembly, that people are foremost represented according to a distribution of votes justly reflecting their proportion of numbers in the total population." That is the issue that we're here to defend and that is why I'm going to support the amendment, Madam Chair.