Madam Chair, thank you. I want to extend my compliments to the Speaker and Mr. Mercer and the management team here very much on the staffing side, and the achievements that we're posting here in terms of the number of women and affirmative action candidates who are among the complement of staff here and the statutory positions. That's a fantastic record and really shows that I think we can be proud of demonstrating some leadership.
Madam Chair, I also wanted to compliment the initiative that is underway now to provide more interpretive and informational services about the Legislative Assembly in official languages, and also, as the Speaker indicated, in Japanese, who account for a surprising number in the total number of visitors to the Assembly. I have been an advocate of this for a couple of years at least now, Madam Chair, and I'm very pleased to see what looks like a very economical but a very up-to-date and easy-to-use technology.
This building is a jewel, not only in Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories, but in Canada and even in the Commonwealth, Madam Chair. I know, from talking to other parliamentarians from Canada and around the world, how impressed they are with this building and that we are proud of it and we should continue to be, and the more we can do to show it off and help people understand what it means to us and what we do in here, the better. So my compliments, Madam Chair.