Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to thank yourself as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, but, more importantly, this House for supporting the Page Program to allow students from the outlying communities, the small communities, ridings, to participate in the goings on of this Legislative Assembly.
Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to have an opportunity to have two Pages here this week to partake of what happens in this Legislative Assembly. From Fort McPherson and Aklavik, I have Allison Neyando from Fort McPherson, Chief Julius School...
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...and Trudy Kogiak from Aklavik who attends Moose Kerr School.
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More importantly, Mr. Speaker, it gives the students an opportunity to go back to our small communities to talk to their classmates and explain the goings on of this Legislative Assembly and, more importantly, to encourage other classmates to take part in this program.
Again, Mr. Speaker, I believe this is a very crucial program that allows the smaller communities, and students throughout the Northwest Territories, to see exactly what this government does, what the Legislative Assembly processes do and, more importantly, the goings on in this House.
Again, I'd like to thank my two young students for taking part in this program. As I drove them in from the airport, I encouraged them that the toughest part of the job that they had to do here was stay awake, because it is sometimes pretty dry.