Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank everyone for their comments and engaging in this discussion here today. There's not a lot that I can add to it. In defence of the democratic process, I can assure you that I love the democratic process. As a matter of fact, to let nominations come and go and not put my name forward next time, I'm going to have to put on earmuffs and handcuffs. Every time there's an election, I can't help myself. I love the democratic process. I love the process when we come here, but the things that some of us could be thinking of doing this for self-serving or unethical or immoral reasons is just not in the cards. I'm sorry. I do object to those quotes being made here. I realize the people out in the public may be saying that. I'm sorry if that's the case, but I know the honourable Members in this room, and that's what we all are, and we do not impugn motives of anybody. We come here to serve, I believe, everyone with the best of intentions of serving our people, as Mr. Yakeleya has said.

To the issue of whether or not this would be confusing, I just wanted to say that we have some information here about the differences in elections. The rules are different from federal to territorial to municipal, from everything from vouching for people to proxy voting to all kinds of different things. The rules do vary from election to election. I don't think that's intended to, again, insult anybody, but there could be confusion with the overlap. I still think that that's true.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned here today very much, and it did come up during our consultation with our constituents, is the issue of devolution. Now, we know that devolution will give new authorities to this House and even with respect to setting our election dates, it will give new authority to this House. I just want to remind people that we have talked... I want people to go back and check their... Well, I guess you haven't been all around as many times as I have for elections, but I want you to go back and check your campaign brochures and see how many times we saw devolution. I can guarantee it was in mine 20 years ago. We cannot understate the accomplishment of this government that we have. Like it or not, this government has brought devolution home to the Northwest Territories. I believe, when people ask and say, oh, this is a smoke screen for devolution, I think we should be very, very proud of what has happened here. People say, oh, the bureaucrats can carry on. You know, we don't need the elected leaders in there, they are dispensable. I also don't agree with that.

I think that this motion does something today. People say that two days is not enough to get real feedback and they oppose it on that basis, but all this motion does is grant the authority to this government to ask the federal government if we can create a bill to have this discussion. That's what this does, so let's keep that in perspective. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.