Thank you, Mr. Chair. As the chair said, the committee spent a great deal of time working on this bill, and largely it was driven by the need to cooperate with our sister territory of Nunavut and work closely with their standing committee. That was a very productive relationship, and we were able to communicate some issues that both sides found with the bill.

However, the unique nature of this legislation where one body exists in two different jurisdictions and is governed by two acts, I think the expectation is that how it works in the NWT will be how it works in Nunavut, and that makes very much sense from an operational standpoint, but it did create challenges for the committee in reviewing this legislation. What I am speaking to today is less about Bill 25 and more about that unique nature of the WSCC legislation in the first place. My concern is that, should there ever be a time when the people of the Northwest Territories want their WSCC to operate fundamentally differently than Nunavut, we may not be in a position to offer those changes to employers, employees, and other people who want to see a different way of doing WSCC or workers' safety rules or governance structures, things like that.

So, until we either split the commission into two separate ones, such as they have done with the law society, for example, and a few others or adopt a model like the professional accountancy's legislation we passed in this House a while back, I don't think we are going to really reach the level of satisfaction that a lot of people have -- I hear concerns about the WSCC often, and how to address them becomes difficult if we are not able to adequately amend our own legislation if it won't result in the same changes in Nunavut. This is very much a live issue, and it's something that I think the 19^th Assembly needs to think about because the state of affairs is going to continue to kind of trouble the expediency of legislative changes and also the independence of the Northwest Territories to bring about its own legislative changes.

With that being said, I think we have done a good job or the committee has done a good job with Bill 25, and largely some of the issues that the committee found with it have been resolved, so the process worked now. However, again, if there are some major changes sought by the public, my fear is that we will be unable to act on it if the current state of affairs remains consistent into the future. Thank you, Mr. Chair.