Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, some people listening to this debate may think we have taken leave of our senses when we talk about our infrastructure and our capital deficit here in the Northwest Territories. However, I have a slightly different idea about how a motion like this and how artistic expression can be incorporated.

To me, I don't quite envision taking a bunch of northern crafts and things and hanging them on walls and having them as an add-on. I think, again, this building is a perfect example of where the culture and the artistic expression is integrated into the building. So I would like to approach it from the point of view if you are going to build a building anyway, you are going to need materials. Why not choose materials in such a way, where possible, that reflect northern materials and northern content? We put out contracts for things. We say northern content. Why don't we put out contracts that talk about artistic content as well; artistic content being integrated into the project from the beginning? I don't know how that works for existing buildings. Maybe with renovations and things like that you could do that, but I don't see us going out and acquiring a whole lot of small pieces of art and putting them here.

I like to decorate myself and I could see taking an item or an artefact and then you could design literally a whole building around it. The Thunderbird Centre in downtown Winnipeg, when you go by that, you don't need to read a sign that says this is an aboriginal gathering place. It's called the Thunderbird Centre and the roofline and the big thunderbird on the top of it, it's all carved right into the roofline. That's the kind of thing that I would envision, so I don't see it as costing anything. This just requires architecture and some forethought going into the design and construction of buildings that should be truly northern and reflect northern culture and northern art. That is the focus that I would like to put on this.

So to our constituents out there who don't think we have enough capital dollars to go around, I think if this is done on the front end and is integrated in, you need materials anyway. I think we could take any northern culture symbol and we could literally design buildings around them. I know it could be done.

I personally have probably the largest collection of northern art of anybody in this room. My kids say I am going to have to build my own museum to display it all, but it isn't the kind of thing you can just take and plunk in any old conventional house. You need the right setting. We need to build buildings with the right setting for the kinds of things that are produced in the North. So I will support the motion. Thank you.

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