Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Ministers' statements. Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the visitors gallery. Joining us here today are Members from the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. Please join me in welcoming Gary Schellenberger, Member of Parliament for Perth-Wellington, Ontario...
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...Diane Bourgeois, Member of Parliament for Terrebonne-Blaineville, Quebec...
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...Larry Bagnell, Member of Parliament for the Yukon...
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...Dennis Bevington, Member of Parliament for the Western Arctic...
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...Jacques Lahaie, Clerk of Committees...
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...and please welcome the staff of the standing committee, Kate Bourke, Marion Menard, Matthiew Carnaghan, Helene Couture-MacTavish, Rene Plante, Cecilia Shea, Micheline Egan, and Christine Detoni.
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Welcome to the opening of the Sixth Session of the 15th Legislative Assembly. I hope you are enjoying the proceedings. Also in the visitors gallery, we have a teacher from St. Pat's High School. Coleen McDonald is a teacher of the Social Studies program at that school. With her are two students, Barbara Drybones and Colin Robinson. These students are very interested in the Legislative Assembly.
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Welcome to the gallery. Orders of the day. Members' statements. The honourable Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.