Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the Members for their comments and support. With respect to Mr. Krutko’s comments, when we did take the bill out, I did go to the military and to the reserve units, and some of those individuals that we had talked to had a significant amount of experience with Rangers throughout the Northwest Territories. We also did go to the NWT

Chamber of Commerce to get their perspective from a territorial perspective.

The Member is right, though; it would have been beneficial to go to some of the local governments to get their input, and in the future I would encourage anyone doing a private member’s bill to do such. But I do feel that we do have the territorial perspective on this bill and people from around the Territories were involved. It was also opened through the committee process to go out for review, and everybody had an opportunity to submit their input and feedback, and people did.

So that’s all I have on that. Thank you to committee for considering this bill.