Mr. Speaker, I was on the phone this morning with the president of the Inuvik Minor Hockey Association, Mr. Les Skinner, and he informed me that he’d received a call the other day from Canadian North asking him if he could find 10 kids to bring down to Edmonton to take part in an Oilers game. After some negotiating, Mr. Skinner managed to get 16 nine and 10-year-old kids down to Edmonton. Canadian North in partnership with the Edmonton Oilers...
They get to go down to Rexall Place, they’ll practice tomorrow with the Oiler coaching staff, and tomorrow night they’re going to be part of the honour guard. They’ll get to go into the dressing room and meet the players. They’re also going to be on the after-hours show, again, I think that’s the game tomorrow night that’s televised on CBC.
Our colleague from Frame Lake pointed out to one of the corporate citizens sponsoring the basketball tournament this weekend and I think we don’t do enough to acknowledge the corporate citizenship across the Northwest Territories who put a lot of money into giving these kids an opportunity which a lot of them may not have had if not for this. I think we should acknowledge the work of Canadian
North in bringing these kids down and the Edmonton Oilers for taking time out in their busy day to mingle with the kids. I’ve always said that anything we do for children across the Northwest Territories, if we could make a difference in the life of one child across the Northwest Territories then anything we have done will have been worth it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.