Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That’s why this motion is so important, because we have to reconnect what these things are doing. Rather than following along blindly of what’s being served up, we need to support this motion. Don’t be afraid, Cabinet. Don’t be afraid, Premier McLeod, or as Mr. Bouchard says, don’t be afraid, McLeod government, to release the shackles of Cabinet
solidarity and vote with us. It’s true, because you want to deep down inside, and I can tell. I can see it right now. Be honest with yourselves. Don’t accept what the federal government’s had.
Mr. Bromley has presented an option for all residents. If we would give the chance for folks to recognize what’s really being fixed, I’m going to say nothing is being fixed by the federal government. Mr. Bromley is presenting an option here before all of us that can continue to do business in a good way. We will be in charge of the system. We can deal with appointments, as I said before. We can worry about the resourcing as we’ve had problems before. We can work together as dual Ministers, both territorial and federally, we’ll sign these things off together. We can do business the NWT way, the northern way about collaboration.
The last thing I’ll say is, in some manner or form, in my view, this is a setback by allowing what’s happening without a stance from our government. I mean our collective government. Premier McLeod came in and said I’m going to renew relations with Aboriginal governments in a new way. I’m going to bring those ties back. I’m going to strengthen the way we do business in the North, and in some ways he’s done that, but where is his voice on this one when the federal government divides us. This motion pulls us back together as a people, and to that I can only imagine, if people don’t know yet, I’ll be voting for it.