Thank you, Madam Chair. I’d like to thank, first of all, the sponsor of this legislation. I think it’s commendable that Mr. Yakeleya is working with his people and I respect him for that.

I’d also like to thank the people of the Sahtu that showed their Sahtu spirit in welcoming us into their community. What was fairly prominent, of course, and very obvious, was the personal testimony that we heard from communities in terms of the plight in dealing with alcohol.

This legislation simply is asking for help and the communities are asking for help. We heard from leaders, elders, parents and youth. There is a problem. There is a problem and we need to help out.

The other point that I wanted to make is we have to balance our business responsibility with social responsibility. Unfortunately, at this point, this government has its relationship with the Liquor Commission and also the liquor outlets and it’s a challenge to try to balance those two. At the same time, I think if we call for development and we do in fact welcome development, it’s going to be based on ensuring that we have really well-thought-out and developed social impacts meditative measures to monitor development so problems of this nature do not get out of hand where we can’t control it anymore. I don’t think that’s the aim of resource development.

I think this legislation sits across this map for a future framework for decision-making. I say that because it was just recently that First Nations people were allowed to drink alcohol and vote. In this light, communities are asking to be involved with the public decision-making process. If they are indeed part of this public government, those communities should have a say. Mahsi.