Mr. Speaker, the Northwest Territories recognizes several people a year, sometimes throughout the month. We recognize people for their accomplishments and last night I was privy to an award given to a number of my constituents, the Status of Women of Council, Native Women's Council, of an award, a wise woman from my community, from the Sahtu region, as other Members from their constituencies also had this honour to recognize their wise women in the North here.

The Arctic Energy Alliance also recognized contributions that had been made in the North in terms of the awareness and their contributions to eliminate the high cost of fuel consumption being used and the methods they use...

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...and also some Members spoke in terms of what they're doing personally. So this North is full of action and people who are doing creative things. I want to say that we're not shy of what we can do to do our part in the Northwest Territories.

Mr. Speaker, also I received a newsletter from ITI listing a young man of 81 in my region who has been awarded for his way of life, which is trapping. It's Mr. David Yallee, who's 81 years old. He's still traps today, as many people do in our small communities. They still go out and do it;

they just do what they have to do. It also talks about a young man here in Colville Lake who was awarded for his high sales in trapping.

So, Mr. Speaker, the future is in our hands so all these types of things that we do, we do it for our own good. I want to suggest a challenge to our Premier here that maybe we should drop another award here, an award for handling competition. Maybe we should have the Premier and his staff and Members here, maybe Members...(inaudible)...a hand game competition with the federal government and really, really have a good day to say the future is really in our hands in terms of what we want to do. Let's have a hand game with the federal government and I think then we can truly say the future is in our hands, and we will win.

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