Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will have to be voting against the amendment presented as a motion by the Member for Monfwi. I appreciate his concern and I tried to highlight it in the context of my statement earlier, which is I think he's in a very difficult position because people from the whole Tlicho Nation are expecting him to deliver results, although again I have to underscore that they don't all live within the boundaries or the prescribed boundaries of the Tlicho Nation. So I appreciate the extra workload he carries.

I actually thought the most interesting presentation put on the table today was by the Member for Deh Cho, Minister McLeod. It was really unique that someone would bring a different dynamic to the argument which would be talking strictly about the basis of being able to do your job and how difficult it is, and sometimes that can't be recognized in the sense of just voter parity and the sense of numbers. I thought that was a very interesting point of view.

I had to support the earlier motion because it was about correcting the line of voter parity and collecting the disproportional representation. I see Mr. Lafferty is trying to do that in his own way, although I give him credit for that.

Although I don't really have much more to offer, Mr. Chairman, I do say that voting against this still emphasis that this Assembly believes in programs over politics and I think that's a very important statement.

If there was one last thing I'd say, which is the Tlicho people need to realize that their Member, Mr. Lafferty, he's almost like that old toy you could box with and he kept bouncing back and fighting this issue and saying he needs the support and representation. Regardless of how people sort of said that they would vote or wouldn't vote, or what they could support, or what balance they would or wouldn't, the bottom line is Mr. Lafferty kept trumpeting this issue even though it looked like it was miles and miles against him. So to his credit this amendment is before the House and the folks should realize that he has fought significantly hard to get this on the table. So, Mr. Chairman, to that, thank you.