Too much in one day. I’ll move over there later.
Mr. Speaker, the Book of Proverbs says that a wise man will listen and increase his learning, and a man of understanding will attain unto wise counsel. I think that’s exactly what happened here. When we first had second reading on this Bill, I stood up and said that of anybody in this Assembly who should vote no, it should be me. But I voted yes at the time, because I believed that we’d have an opportunity to make some change.
As a couple of Members said, we didn’t get everything we wanted, and Cabinet didn’t get everything they wanted, but I think this is a perfect example of this Assembly working together. I admire the resolve of the Regular Members, who pretty well stuck together. We had our differences, but Regular Members pretty well stuck together throughout this whole thing and came to Cabinet with a common front and a united front. I think that had a lot to do with the fact that we were able to get a lot of the changes that we required. It’s a good day for consensus government, an extremely good day.
I commend Cabinet for listening to what Regular Members had to say, not only just listening and paying us lip service but actually acting on it. It goes to the Members’ conduct guidelines that we all signed. I think this goes a long way to showing that we have the ability to have our disagreements, but at the end of the day, we try to come forward with a product that’s best for the people in the NWT, because that’s what we’re here to do.
With that, Mr. Speaker, I am going to vote in favour of third reading, because Inuvik has benefited from this whole process, and we just hope that we can keep up the good work. A good lesson for Cabinet in the future is that it’s much easier when you work with the people on this side and give us a product that we can all agree to. Then we won’t have as much trouble in the future. It was an interesting process to be a part of. I’m glad I was a part of it. I’ve seen a lot of good fights from a lot of good people in this Assembly, and I really admire that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.