Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With this being our last day in the Legislature and Remembrance Day coming up on Monday, I’d like to dedicate my statement today to Remembrance Day.

There will be a service in Hay River sponsored by the Royal Canadian Legion. I have been very proud to participate in that service in past years. This year, as well, my colleague MLA Robert Bouchard and I will be proud to lay wreaths at the cenotaph at the Legion Remembrance Day service and read the scriptures for that service as well.

After I mentioned this week earlier, having left home at such a young age and coming from a family of veterans, I adopted the veterans that I learned to know and love in the Northwest Territories and in Hay River. Sadly, many of them have now gone on, have passed on and are fewer and fewer now, and we remember so fondly spending Remembrance Day services with them. I can’t name them because I would surely forget some, but their families know who they are and they are still dear to our heart.

As we commission the Highway of Heroes on Friday with our Minister of Transportation, and as we look for ways to remember the proud tradition and service of the Canadian military in peacekeeping and in war actions, I hope that we will all take the time to live up to the commitment that we make that we will remember them.