Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I want to say thank you to all my frontline workers in the communities of Nunakput and to my constituents, our passed elders, our elders. Our elders in the communities are always ready to listen, to help and assist us as leaders and as regular people. Our youth, our future, you know, keep being resilient. I know we live in the most northerly communities in the North and that's what makes us so good. Frontline staff, our RCMP, our nursing stations, our social workers, our teachers, the Canadian Rangers, our mental health workers, our hamlet garage staffs in all communities, our housing, the management, the Inuvialuit Corporate Group, and, Mr. Speaker, all our volunteers that do so much that never get really recognized but thank them for what they do. Sachs Harbour, my leadership, Mayor Norman Anikina and council. John Lucas and the community corp of Sachs Harbour, and his board. Paulatuk, Ray Ruben and his council. Lawrence Ruben and the Paulatuk Community Corp, his board. Ulukhaktok, Josh Oliktoak and his council. Collin Ituna for community corporation. Tuk, my home community of Tuktoyaktuk, my mayor Erwin Elias and Ryan Yakeleya. We've been working together this last month really closely for all of what's been happening in my home community, and, you know, we've got through and we're still working together to make sure the communities in the riding is working together to get things done.
To all our HTCs who take care of our land and take care of the resources, which is our caribou and what's needed to be looked at.
Mr. Speaker, I really want to thank my good friend Jordin Tootoo for coming to Tuk. I called him up. And he just doesn't go on short notice. Almost a year out you have to wait but I knew him since he was 15 years old. And I called him and I said this is what's happening in my own community; I need your help. The young youth wanted him to come up. And that's why Jordin came, is because I called him and he wanted to help us with our youth. And now we're looking at planning a bigger for the Beaufort Delta in coming April. So all the youth get to see him and get motivated by him. He's such an awesome young man, and he is doing so good, you know, for our youth and the kids loved him. And I just really want to thank him for coming and thank all the leadership. And I miss doing the lunch and breakfast program in my home community of Tuk for the students. But, Mr. Speaker, I wouldn't be able to do what I do without thanking my wife Jenny for being behind me with all this last couple of months in trying times in my community and being there for me to be able to do what I do. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.