Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Sitting here after I have written my notes, it has become abundantly clear that we have a Premier, Cabinet, and MLAs, including myself, who have lost confidence in Minister Nokleby and that we are now in a position where we have a sitting Minister without a portfolio, without leading a department. This is not what I had intended when I cast the ballot in the fall for Cabinet, nor do I think it's what the constituents for Inuvik Twin Lakes or the rest of the NWT would have approved of. I will, however, state that there have been numerous performance issues raised, and I'm not going to get into them again as all my colleagues have spoken, well, the majority of them on the Regular side. There have been conduct issues, and we did raise them in the spring. We raised them as Regular Members to the Minister and the Premier in this meeting. There was a commitment, there was a public statement of a commitment, to these. Some have been approved with some Members; some Members have not. I and as my colleague have had a better communication with this Minister from her office, though, there has been still faults, but that is not what I am going to speak to today. It is the recent serious concerns that have come to light.

This has challenged me to my core of who I am, what I stand for, and why I am here. If the Minister was not available to us on numerous occasions where we could address this, I have been left with no choice but to have this in the back of my mind and not be able to deal with it.

Like I said, I have witnessed conduct of the Minister that is unacceptable for any Member of this House to any other Member, and, out of respect for the process, I will also not go into any details. The Minister has been offered, like I said, opportunities this week to have herself heard but has not taken this offer to the Members. This leaves us all in a situation where we are going to make this decision today with all we have heard from her.

I, as the MLA for Inuvik Twin Lakes, have to make the best decision for my constituents, my community, and the residents of the NWT, and I make this decision with full confidence that I have no doubt that this is the right decision. My support is behind the Premier. I support the decision she made is the right decision. However, if this motion is passed, the Member for Great Slave will become a Member of the Regular Members' side, and I will continue to work with her, and I will continue to communicate with her, and I will continue to work together for the betterment of the people in the Northwest Territories as Regular Members.

Mr. Speaker, I will be supporting this motion and supporting the Premier's decision with regard to revoking Minister Nokleby's appointment. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.