Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to give a sincere thanks to everyone who spoke here today. I’m very thankful for the passion in their words and I also am very thankful for their honesty.

This is a difficult motion in that we’ve all seen and we’ve heard people who have seen there are multi sides to this problem. It’s not an easy one.

I also wish to sincerely thank Member Yakeleya, the Member for Sahtu. With his help we were able to collaborate something that I think is meaningful and I certainly think that with his help it’s much stronger. I enjoy every occasion I get to work with

Member Yakeleya and this was definitely one of the best experiences to get this issue forward.

I look forward to seeing our collective strength send a message forward to others. Hopefully other Legislatures will be able to consider similar action.

I understand the difference between the roundtable and the inquiry. The roundtable is proceeding forward with the strength and vision of our Premier and I’m grateful he’s there leading this. I think the Northwest Territories citizens, women and children, and Aboriginal women and children will be well served with his experience, knowledge and certainly his ability.

An inquiry in its own way is a challenging endeavor and it’s for that we are asking for the federal government to lead on that. I personally believe it’s best suited with the federal government and developed through a vision through the roundtable on their work, but that is yet to be developed.

Families deserve answers. I am no fool; this is a very complex issue, but I boil this down to respect, honesty and dignity. This is very important. This motion is about closure and it’s about forward thinking. It’s about making sure we can all collectively do better. We could not do better without the strength of the Sisters in Spirit, the Native Women’s Association, the NWT Status of Women, and certainly, for every one of those people in this Assembly and those who provided us words of wisdom and support outside of it.

I want you to know I believe this is something important, but I want to know that we are doing everything we can. I think that our collective rise here to support our Premier, to support this motion will do much. We must be relentless in any way to stop violence. There is just no two ways about it. Violence is a terrible thing and people do not deserve it. The numbers tell the true story, and I am hopeful that the next chapter can be written with all of us trying to find a solution.

In closing, I want to say again, thank you to all of those, and I appreciate their perspectives and certainly their support. I will be asking for a recorded vote on this particular issue. Thank you very much, and thank you to everyone.