Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll keep it very brief and to the opening comments. I want to say, Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the hard work that the Speaker and his staff are doing. I know times that, for us new MLAs, called rookie MLAs, there's lots of regulations, there's lots of patience required by your staff to get us comfortable and understanding how the system works. So I really appreciate that, Mr. Speaker, in terms of guiding us through this process here, that your staff have been very patient with us. I want to support you and your staff and continue working to help us understand our jobs better. Sometimes we just don't understand things and they have the patience to let us know, and still sometimes we don't understand. But that's the way it is. So I want to

thank and in saying that to Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chairman, in terms of his staff giving us good support as we're down here.

I want to also say he certainly has my support of seeing a program going into the smaller communities all over the Northwest Territories, south of the lake here and further up north right up to the Beaufort-Delta, in terms of bringing the government into the schools and having them understand that, someday, they may be some up-and-coming MLAs from our regions, and so they understand that we are bringing government into the communities so even our older people in the communities don't understand that who haven't seen the mace and the like before. It is like bringing the Stanley Cup to our communities. I would think so, to really understand the mace and to understand it, because, as MLAs, we sit here day in and day out. We sometimes take that for granted. Sometimes it is nice to bring some of the government into our communities so people in our communities somewhat appreciate the work that we do and the integrity of the government that we perform in. I want to support the Speaker on that initiative.

Some of my colleagues that spoke on the public broadcasting, there is an opportunity waiting to be resolved and looked at. I support what they have talked about how we could really use this opportunity to really broadcast some other initiatives from the Legislative Assembly that will bring more understanding and education into our communities that would enhance the bringing of the mace and the Legislative Assembly into our communities.

Lastly, I would like to thank the Speaker and the staff to recommend that the Page program that Members would be entitled to bring four Pages a year to the Assembly. Again, that would bring some excitement to our region when who the four would be coming down. That is very good. That is why I am going to get some good MLAs in the future that this government is going out to the people. I just wanted to keep it to that point, Mr. Chair, that certainly, I will have my support on the initiatives here. Thank you.