Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in his sessional statement, the Premier made reference to Bailey House and years of selfless work by Reverend Gordon Bailey and his wife, Ruth Bailey. There has been millions of dollars spent on Bailey House and there has been many accolades heaped on the Baileys, well deserved for their years of selfless service.
Mr. Speaker, as they look at this good news event, what people do not realize, I don't think, is that the Baileys spent their last years in Fort Smith in the Northern Lights special care home. They now lie together, as they did in life, in the Anglican graveyard, side by side. But, Mr. Speaker, as we were doing the cleanup of both graveyards in the community and I was walking through there, I noticed that while they lie side by side, their graves were basically forgotten and abandoned, the wooden crosses falling apart and rotting, and their names barely visible. I've raised this issue with some members in Yellowknife involved with Bailey House, that to make this a true celebration of their contribution that it would be very fitting for a small ceremony and a simple headstone to be put in the final resting place of the Baileys to recognize not only in Yellowknife where they did their good work, but where they spend the rest of eternity together in Fort Smith in the local graveyard, that it be marked in a fitting way that recognizes, in fact, the work that they did do. They should not be forgotten and they should not be ignored like that.
So I would hope today that by raising this issue in this House that the people listening to this will recognize that that is a key piece to make this a true celebration of all the work the Baileys did for the people of the Northwest Territories, especially the homeless. Thank you.
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