Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Earlier today I hosted the first ever Mining Industry Advisory Board meeting here in Yellowknife. This was a key recommendation from our Mineral Development Strategy and it certainly is an honour here today to welcome four of the six members of that board with us today, so I wanted to recognize them: Mr. Don Bubar of Avalon Rare Metals; Mr. John Kearney, Canadian Zinc; Ms. Leni Keogh of Olivut Resources; Mr. Rod Brown of Discovery Mining Services. Not able to be with us today and I should mention the chair of the advisory board is Mr. Brendan Bell from Dominion Diamond Corp, and also Mr. Darrel Beaulieu from DEMCo. I also wanted to recognize the

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members, Brooke Clements, president of the NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines, and with Brooke is Mr. Tom Hoefer, executive director of NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines. Mr. Speaker, I wanted to thank them for all of their commitment to the Northwest Territories and advancing the interests of mining here in the Northwest Territories.

I also wanted to recognize, if I could, a couple of Pages that I have in the Assembly: Marionne Gacayan from Weledeh School and Umairah Mutoola from Weledeh School as well. I also wanted to thank all of the Pages for all of the hard work they put in for Members during this sitting of the House. Thank you.