Thanks, Mr. Chair. I am an alternate on the Government Operations Committee, and I want to sincerely thank all of the committee members for their very hard work in putting this together. I sat in on all of the discussions here in Yellowknife. This is a great report. This is why we are here as legislators, to do this kind of work. Very significant improvements have been made to the bill, but I do want to particularly recognize a few individuals for the work that they did on this whole process.

I want to congratulate the chair of the committee, Mr. Testart, for stick-handling this through the committee. It is a very complicated piece of legislation, a lot of issues were at play, but I want to congratulate him on his chairing skills in getting this piece of work done.

A lot of the staff behind the scenes deserve some recognition. I will have to leave that for now, but there was a lot of very hard work by our staff.

I also want to recognize the work of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, who provided a lot of very valuable feedback that was incorporated into this bill, and I think that her work in particular has made it a much better piece of legislation.

This is the first time that this legislation has ever gone through a comprehensive review, and we made this a mandate priority. We all did in this House. It is a very important piece of legislation, and I want to thank the Minister of Justice, as well, and his staff for leading that effort.

I have a strong personal interest in this matter, as well, because I have used access to information for many years at the federal level. I was involved with MLA-at-the-time Sam Gargan and John Vertes in drafting the original bill back in about 1994. This has really come a long, long way, and I have become more familiar with the GNWT process since I became an MLA because I've had occasion to use this GNWT process now, trying to get documents that I had hoped to get out of Ministers. This is a strong piece of legislation now, and I'm happy to support it. I want to recognize everyone's work on getting this to where I think it needs to be. Thanks, Mr. Chair.