Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I, too, am going to support the motion that is before us today. I wanted to go back a little ways. I think what is important here, and my colleague from Inuvik Twin Lakes mentioned it; it's not about us, it's about the victims of sexual abuse in our territory.

All of us have stories and most of us know victims of sexual abuse and the impact it has on their lives. From where I stand, Mr. Speaker, the Premier has apologized to the Regular Members in this Assembly. He has done that. I personally accepted his apology when he made that to us. But, Mr. Speaker, the Premier sent out a press release as an effort to apologize publicly for the statements that he made and the comments he made in the press with regard to...We all know what we are talking to here and I will be very careful about that. What the Premier hasn't done yet, to date, and I thought, Mr. Speaker, when we gathered here together in this Assembly on October 17th, the first thing the Premier should have done is stand up and publicly apologize to the residents and the victims of sexual abuse across this territory.

That didn't happen, Mr. Speaker. Again, I don't know exactly why it didn't happen but it didn't happen. In my mind, the residents are owed an apology by the Premier. Hopefully, even today, he can stand up and make that apology. I think we have to clear the air on this. We are going to move forward and this also shows some action on behalf of this government in the area of victims of sexual abuse and some support networks that should be readily available for them. So, Mr. Speaker, with that, I fully support the motion and I, too, would like to thank the Regular Members here for bringing the motion forward and us airing this out. I think it's a necessary thing and something that needs to happen. Mahsi.

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