Thank you, Madam Chair. This motion here speaks to reviewing this whole issue again. This is a very important motion. The work done by the Boundaries Commission is very important. I feel the commission is just doing the numbers. It isn’t looking at the essence and importance of culture, language and boundaries of the land. When they make suggestions like moving two nations of people together, which don’t come to agree on a riding, that’s not good. That’s too constrictive, too limited. They should be really looking at the importance of the language and culture.

Madam Chair, we even heard last week in the celebration, a former leader in the past went to Ottawa to say we have a unique style of government in the Northwest Territories. We have a unique set of values and cultures that need to be recognized. This report for me really doesn’t take into consideration the hard work that’s been done before us. It’s based on numbers. When you can easily say we’re taking this group of people and putting them over here, that’s not okay. Those days are gone. We’ve got to have the respect for people that was fought for in the Constitution and recognized in the land and boundaries of our people in the Northwest Territories.

I think that’s why, for me, it’s difficult to accept some of the recommendations. But to see this, I said no, no, no. If anything, we can expand the mandate or give them new marching orders to make it right. Let’s make it right. Let’s do the right thing and make it right. I know a riding is way over. We’ve got to make that right. So, for me, this motion says let’s do it again. Nothing wrong with that, to do the right thing, to say that we just want to disregard this and say it’s done already. We’re going to live with that consequence. That is something we really need to think about within ourselves.

So I’m going to support the emotion and say let’s do it right and in a way that’s respectful. I’m recognizing the hard work, the commission, the mandate and all that stuff that’s brought before us. It’s too constricting. It’s too limiting and it’s our responsibility to fix it.

So I want to say let’s go back and let’s do the right thing for the people. Thank you