Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I, too, will not be in support of the motion. Obviously seeing it is a big project that is going to affect my region that I represent and it’s going to be great news for the people back home and the jobs there it is going to create is going to be a lot of happy people up there. Just seeing what it’s going to start off with in the creation of the Mackenzie Valley Highway, where I stated earlier is going to be a lot of work to come for years down the valley.
I also just wanted to also commend the government on our Caucus priorities, something that we did earlier in this government. It is great to see that we’ve already started hitting some of these priorities that we’ve recognized, such as the working with Aboriginal governments. You are doing a good job on that to be taking the first steps moving forward and getting this Inuvik-Tuk highway and building the infrastructure there. It just shows that this government is standing behind what it says it is going to do. Over the next four years, we can start looking at our priorities and dealing with them and that people of the NWT will start to have faith that we do say we are going to get done.
We do have to make some tough decisions whether we agree with them or not. Most of the time when we make these tough decisions it always has to be in the best interests for the territory, for looking into the future of what it is going to represent for the territory as a whole. There have been some really good debates over the last few days. It really opened my eyes into the whole government system on how things work here. I look forward to the next three and a half years of working with these people, Members here on this side and that side of the House to ensure that our Caucus priorities that we
did recognize earlier in this government actually we follow through with them.
I think right now we are off to a great start and in terms of this motion that is before us, I won’t be supporting that and moving forward so that our priorities are addressed. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.