Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I thank my colleagues for amending the motion. It only speaks about getting our northern story told. But in terms of the federal commitment in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, this part of the healing process is not to have unfinished business. This federal commission was about having a chance for people affected, people who lived in residential schools to tell their story to this commission.
I believe it’s important that our government urges the federal commission to pick up this work as soon as it can and also to go with them, to ask them for resources so that we in the Northwest Territories, who had many residential schools, to give us the opportunity to tell our stories in the regional centres. Then because they were only scheduled to have one hearing in the Northwest Territories this gives us a huge opportunity to tell our full story from the Northwest Territories at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing. It may be slated for Yellowknife, I believe, but the way it’s structured right now it’s not going to have the opportunity for regions and our communities and the people who live there to make a presentation in person. So this is one way we can speak to that.
With that, I will be supporting the motion.