Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to start off by congratulating you on your position. I look forward to you keeping this House in order for the next four years and working alongside you.

I also just want to take this opportunity to congratulate all the new Members on your elections. I know I was watching you during your campaign; you all did a great job. Over the last couple weeks I’ve seen the enthusiasm, I’ve seen the work ethic and I’ve seen the optimism, and I think moving forward we’re going to work great together as 19 Members.

I’m very honoured and humbled to be serving my second term in this great building for the people of the Northwest Territories. But before I start thanking all my supporters and thanking my family, there’s a special group I would like to thank, and that’s the Members of the 17th Legislative Assembly as well as the staff. Through their mentorship, their leadership, their hard work and dedication for the people of the Northwest Territories and to this building, as well as creating very strong, lifelong friendships, they’ve made me the Member that I am here today. I will continue to work on their behalf to push a lot of work that we did in the 17th forward, alongside 18 other Members here, to do the best for the people of the Northwest Territories.

I believe that people deserve a strong voice, and I always say that I bring that strong voice into this House. But what’s better than one strong voice? Nineteen strong voices. That’s what we have with the 18th Legislative Assembly.

Now I’d just like to take this opportunity to thank all the supporters who helped me get re-elected into the 18th Assembly. I will not let you down. I will work harder during this government than I did in the 17th Legislative Assembly.

I want to thank two of my biggest supporters, my parents, Martha and Winston Moses. I think it was a really great moment when my dad and I were putting up signs throughout Inuvik just before the elections went on. Aside from my biggest supporters of my parents, I also want to thank my smallest supporter, Ms. Kali Wood, who wore my button and she was actually on some of my buttons as we were going through the campaign and I was sure her support helped put me over the top.

I want to thank everybody who has prayed for me over the 17th Assembly and will continue to pray for me to do the best I can in this House for the people of the Northwest Territories.

With that said, I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas. Have a safe, enjoyable and happy holiday season with your family, with your friends; and after today and after the business gets settled, that all the Members from out of town have a safe trip home and enjoy it with your family and friends. It’s going to be very seldom for the next four years. Thank you.