Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I mentioned earlier in the House, this spring I had the opportunity to spend some time with my family up at Old Fort Point, just 30 miles south of Tulita. Old Fort Point is a special place for my family, Mr. Speaker. It is a place where there is a real connection to my family. My mother had a cabin there and over the past number of years, before she passed away, she always went to Old Fort Point during the spring and fall times. So when I go back, it is a very spiritual place for me. It is where I connected. I am really happy that I show a lot of gratitude to my mother for bringing us there and showing us the importance of life by coming to Old Fort Point. Certainly when I go there, I certainly miss my mother when I am there, and the rest of my family.
Mr. Speaker, in these times when I get back to Old Fort Point, I sometimes sit there and wonder and look at things that I need to be grateful for, grateful for some of the things that are happening in the Northwest Territories. One of the things I really look at are the single parents. This year students are going to be graduating from high school, post-secondary school, colleges, certificate institutions, all kinds of programs that are happening in the Northwest Territories and in Canada. The single parents, the mothers and fathers, day in and day out, make sure the children get up, have breakfast, get them to school, pick them up, look after them when they are sick. I am really grateful for the parents for doing that.
We in the Legislative Assembly sit here and we are very busy. We are doing good work for our people. There are very fine MLAs here to speak very strong
on their issues for their people. I am grateful for the families that support these MLAs here in this House and, more importantly, for getting the children to the school, for pushing them through and disciplining. Sometimes it is very hard. I am very grateful for these kinds of things that happen. I am grateful for the good Lord for giving us some of the strength to be here every day and to fight hard and for some of the responses we get. Sometimes they are not always ones that we want to hear. Sometimes we win some and lose some. Sometimes it is very difficult to lose, but it is also very appreciative when you can get the chance to represent your people in this forum and to thank mothers and fathers who have raised us. I hope we do the same thing for our children. I want to say thank you to my mother and my father.