Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ll be supporting this motion. Hopefully this motion will give some strength to the powers that be in this House in that they go down to Ottawa on every chance and talk to the people in Ottawa as to why we need to have northern rescue operations in the Northwest Territories.

We have a vast region. My colleague talked about Nunavut being served from Halifax, the Northwest Territories from Trenton, and the Yukon from BC and Vancouver. We need to get together with the other provinces and look at a northern operation that will serve the northern territories. So hopefully this strong message will start to trickle down to the powers that be in Ottawa to show that the North is

waking up and that we need a system like this in the Northwest Territories to help our people.

So I’ll be supporting this motion. Hopefully this motion will give some power to the Cabinet to talk to their colleagues when they have their federal and territorial Ministers’ meeting.