Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I feel I’m compelled just to speak about some of the missing and murdered women in Tu Nedhe. In each of the two small communities I represent there have been women from those communities who have been murdered, one recently that was in the news. It affected the whole community. Both times it happened it’s affected the whole community. In the missing young ladies, each of those people that are missing, it’s still fresh in people’s minds when someone goes missing. It is unlike knowing that the individual has passed away, but that the individual is just missing and nobody really knows what has happened. So it remains fresh in people’s minds at all times. I still have young ladies that were the age of the young lady that’s featured on the poster from Lutselk’e who come up to me and they’re adults now and they were friends and it’s like they’re speaking about something that occurred a couple of weeks ago or last week and said, I was going to go on the plane with her that day, but she didn’t show up so I returned to Lutselk’e on my own. People that speak of her, and her father speaks of her, as this being something that remains fresh in their mind. So it’s very devastating to the community when people are murdered and when ladies go missing. I know that the children of one of the ladies that were murdered have never been the same. So it was something that continues to impact them into their adulthood and I’m sure it will impact them for their entire lives.

So I felt I should stand up and acknowledge the people of Tu Nedhe that have gone missing and have been murdered. Thank you.