Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, over the past few days, there's been a big celebration happening in my region in the Sahtu which happens to be in my community of Tulita, my home town. Mr. Speaker, it's reported in the CBC News that the Hollywood legend, Leslie Neilson, also known as Mr. McGoo, also as a big star in Hollywood comedies such as Airplane and Naked Gun and Naked Gun Two and a Half, Airplane.
Mr. Speaker, the celebration signifies the importance of community members working together under the Sahtu Land Claims Agreement that was the spirit and intent of having the control and the ownership of lands and resources in the lives of our people in our region to celebrate the significant contribution by elders and past leaders in our region and in the whole Northwest Territories to come together to work together. The unity accord is a celebration. They brought up the Honourable Tom Siddon and other dignitaries across the Northwest Territories and they brought up a fellow who grew up in Tulita who now lives in Fort Lauderdale in the States, Leslie Neilson. When he was growing up there, my grandmother and my mother spoke of him growing up in Tulita. My grandmother and some other ladies up in Tulita used to babysit him. This signifies a strong sense of a small community like this that have strong visions to work together, but also to show the rest of the Northwest Territories that this type of work can get done. Sometimes it starts in small communities.
Mr. Speaker, also the community of Yellowknife will be hosting Mr. Nielsen who will be coming here and spending a day with the people in Yellowknife. Mr. Speaker, the Tulita Unity Accord is something that should be congratulated by all the people in the Sahtu, but also to the people in Tulita for hosting such an event and having such a legend come from Tulita and making it big in the world. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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