Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to thank Mr. Yakeleya for his motion. Last term, when I was chair of Government Operations, we reviewed the Official Languages Act. I was very pleased to hear about the languages secretariat at that time. What happened is it stimulated and supported our Aboriginal languages throughout the Northwest Territories. There was a significant decline in support for our Aboriginal languages once that department was disbanded. It was also said, even to this day, that the best support for
languages are those employees who are in other departments to this day. I’m with Mr. Yakeleya in that I believe that we should and must consolidate our languages again into one department so that we can continue to support it and build on it for the benefit of all the people in the Northwest Territories.