Tough acts to follow, Mr. Speaker, but I'll get in here and do my bit at bat here. There's almost a theatrical, dramatic element to this and a question that we can put to ourselves, Mr. Speaker, to bridge or not to bridge?
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There's the rub. I've been 43 years living in Yellowknife and in the North, Mr. Speaker. I've seen several versions of this movie. They've all had the same sad, sorry, no-go ending and it's about time now that we can change the ending of this story.
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I can't imagine a better time for us to endeavour to do this. Four years ago, in fact almost to the day, Mr. Chairman, it was June 12, 2003, four years ago that the Deh Cho Bridge Act passed in here and I was happy to be one of the people to support it then. So we tried to rewrite the ending of the story then and it's before us, not the bill of course, but the same nagging, lingering questions. Gee, can we really do it? Yes - we - can.
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