Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. The job of an MLA is to be here front and centre and make decisions. Often you have to look at both sides of the issues and often the decisions have to come quick.
We've discussed devolution when we got elected into the Assembly, like Mr. Dolynny pointed out. We had many briefings with the government. They have informed us about the plan. We have looked at the whole Northwest Territories, and to say that the people haven't been consulted I think is not true. There have been many public consultations throughout the past 18 months and I think as part of the signing, the Premier indicated there will be even more consultations.
I believe there are other ways than a plebiscite to gauge public support and public opinion as we move forward on big issues. If we start looking at plebiscites, why didn't we do it for the bridge or the Inuvik-Tuk initiatives, which have huge impacts on our government and budgets in the future? I don't believe that we're doing ourselves a service by going down the road of a plebiscite. With that, I will not be supporting and will be voting against this motion.