Today I would like to thank Minister Lee in regards to my last community tour I had in my riding of Nunakput. The first day we travelled to Sachs Harbour, we met with community leaders and some of the staff and we had a really good visit. I saw the new hall that’s been constructed in the community and we are still waiting for an answer on the funding from the government. We had a really good visit in Sachs.
Ulukhaktok, we spent the night in the community. We had a really good time. We had a community feast and I’d like to thank Joseph and Elsie Haloosit, Robert and Agnes Kuptana, Gary Bristow, and my good friend Patrick Joss. We had a really good visit. I played hockey that night in Ulukhaktok, Mr. Speaker, and they don’t have a Zamboni; they have shovels that go around the rink. I tell you they do a really good job in that community for that. It was a really eye-opening experience I had there in regard to that. What little they have, they make do with.
I had Minister Lee go to the community singalong, so hopefully when she was at the sing-along, she had a good “I Saw the Light” experience.
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I’d like to thank the community as a whole and everybody that came out to the meetings and brought up the concerns, thank you again.
The next day we travelled into Paulatuk with the community, met with some of the community leaders and constituents and it was good to see my elders, Eduard Ivik and my little sister Mabel Ruben.
Any concerns to my riding, any concerns brought up in my community tour will be brought up in this session that we are having now. So thank you, and hello to Nunakput. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.