Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, let’s not forget Mr. Anthony W.J. “Tony” Whitford, the environmentalist.
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And I mean that as the best kind of environmentalist. This is a person who simply personifies environmental responsibility. He’s not out there harping and hollering like we real greenies; he’s out there doing. We see him with his walking shoes on just about all the time, making his way from point A to point B and on the way picking up the bottles and turning them in and donating to a cause, and picking up garbage and so on. He’s been telling me about his 12-inch insulated walls on his new house. So I just want to make sure that we recognize that.
There’s another aspect of that and I know that he likes to eat local foods. My one regret as a politician is that I wasn’t here earlier, because I keep hearing these stories of wafting odours of an entire side of buffalo floating down the hallways of the Assembly. I seem to have missed that tradition.
I think with just a split second’s consideration, all of us will recall and know and feel how important family is to Tony, and the very human aspect of this person in his recognition of how important family is to every one of us. We all make sacrifices and I know he has had to make a lot to serve the public as he has and I want to recognize that.
And last and not the least important is I want to welcome Tony to Weledeh by saying, on behalf of all my Weledeh constituents, that we thank him from the bottom of our hearts for all the services he’s done for the people and the land of the Northwest Territories. Mahsi.
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