Thank you, Mr. Chair. Being a newly elected official here, you always come into this room under the pretense of wanting to do what’s best for the Territories. You know, clearly every intention of newly elected officials or those that return here is to do just that and you spend months, years – we’re halfway through our term – almost two years to try to work together in a consensus-style manner. We protect that of which we hold as dear and true, which is consensus, and yet today we’re acting like we’re parties, parties of one, parties of two, parties of three. Clearly, this, in my mind, goes against the virtue of consensus-style government. I know it’s important to have debate. That’s fine. But when the topic of this nature is so political and so self-serving in nature and it crosses the lines of culture, language, I can tell you, it’s not a fun place to be in. Even though I don’t mind being here and having a good dust-up with my colleagues, a lot of people were galvanized on these issues right from the get-go. Things were said and what was supposed to be in the spirit of working towards some type of unanimity in terms of what’s best for the people, it turns out to be who’s with who, who’s with what, and really, at the end of the day, what are we accomplishing.
I think Mr. Moses is the smartest guy in the room and probably the youngest guy in the room. I say that because he’s observant. He sees that. We’ve spent so much time on this being self-serving, indeed where the people of the Northwest Territories are suffering, whether it’s health, education and everything, and quite frankly, we’re squabbling over a seat, a seat there, and quite frankly, what did we achieve? The status quo. We’re going to be going to the courts, I’m pretty sure.
The fact remains that consensus government was designed so that we’re respecting one another. It was designed so that we could work together, and quite frankly, I think that these types of really hot political items need to be looked at. I think if that’s looked at in a form…