Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I also would like to speak in favour of the motion. I think that though we need to say that it is a call to action, it's not enough to be just a clich‚ that we're going to save the planet and do our part, we need to do something. We need some real activity on the part of this government, we need to lead by example, and, as I said in my Member's statement today, we're in a position to set policy and legislation. I've got to tell you, I drive around in a big gas-guzzling, exhaust-spewing vehicle, but if it was illegal to do so, I'd probably stop. I mean you can't spill a litre of oil on the ground, it's illegal. You can't smoke in public, it's illegal. But you can sure drive a vehicle that pumps the CO2 out into the atmosphere. So I say we have an opportunity, as leaders, to set new standards.
In my lifetime, so many things have become politically incorrect and I think we should make it politically incorrect to be wasteful and to do things that are excessive and hard on our environment that we live in. I think it would be safe to say that the majority of people here, even in this room, and maybe across this country, are from the baby boomer generation, which will be remembered as the generation of excessive consumption of all things. Maybe as people in leadership now, we should be showing that we can have a different legacy by speaking out on this and doing something, as Mr. Yakeleya said, to improve the fortunes of future generations and to do concrete things to make a difference.
Alternate energy sources is a very important thing to invest money in up front. So I just ask today for this government to prove that there is a will to make a change and we need to do that in order to encourage other jurisdictions to do the same thing. Today when we were raising issues of climate change and preservation of our environment, I bet I heard 10 times from the other side of the House the Crown, the Crown, the Crown. So are we in jurisdictional never land? Are we in like a twilight zone? We have no jurisdiction? Who has the jurisdiction to protect our environment here in the North if not us? So Ms. Lee said we should bow our collective heads today. I don't know exactly what that meant, but I think we should bow our collective heads and pray that somebody has jurisdictional authority and the Northwest Territories to stand up and be counted and say we need to protect our land and our water. Thank you.
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