Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. I guess I would like to thank the members of the commission for the work that they undertook. I did review the interim report, and again the final report. I didn't make a submission as I think there's always some risk in sitting MLAs actually participating in these kinds of processes. But, you know, I think, as I've heard some other Members speak, that the difficult decision of the number of MLAs and how the boundaries should be drawn has largely been kind of put off to eight years in the future when the next Electoral Boundaries Commission would sit and consider these matters. And I'm not sure that that's a great idea. I guess I'd hoped that they would -- I understand their reasoning and their creative way of trying to address, you know, the linguistic cultural diversity of the Northwest Territories and the rural/urban dimensions. And I think they really tried to avoid tinkering with some of the balance issues that, you know, even the courts struggle with. So what they have come up with is redrawing of some of the boundaries within Yellowknife and Inuvik. And, you know, I don't know enough about Inuvik to say anything about those boundaries but the Yellowknife boundaries, the way that they've been presented in the report and will -- you know, what we're talking about is actually now adopting the recommendations from the commission which would then have to be put into legislation in time for the next election. So we're kind of up against a time constraint here, and it's kind of like a "take it or leave it" approach right now where if we accept the recommendations from the commission, there is time to get this put into legislation in time for the next election. If we reject these recommendations, I'm not sure that changes can be made in time for the next election. And I'm not even going to go anywhere near a court challenge.

I've looked at the changes that are proposed for the Yellowknife ridings. Frame Lake is not my riding; it's the riding that I represent now, and there may be another MLA here in the future representing that riding. So I don't take any issues or I don't have any concerns about the redrawing of the Frame Lake boundary. I'm here to serve the people wherever they live in the riding. But the one area, as some of my colleagues have mentioned, that does cause me some concern is the Ingraham Trail. Traditionally they've been part of the Yellowknife North riding, and I don't think people on the Ingraham Trail even know this is happening and that by accepting the recommendations here this evening that they are going to be moved into the Range Lake riding. I don't think they know that. And I don't think they've had the ability to express their concerns, if they have any about that, because nobody really knows. So that's the one thing that I'm particularly concerned about. And, you know, I guess the option would be that we don't accept these boundaries or have somebody else look at it and redraw them in some way. But for Yellowknife MLAs to be seen tinkering with the boundaries themselves, gerrymandering; we don't want to go there, that's just not a good thing. So I don't know who, you know, we would even ask. Could we refer this back to the commission, or ask the -- I don't know -- Elections NWT to look at this issue? The bureau of stats? I don't know. But I have been mulling this over for a while, and I'm just not sure that I can support this, the recommendation the way that it's been framed. So I'm just not sure what I'm going to do at this point. But this is a difficult topic and we're under some time constraints, and I'm just not sure what to do. Thanks, Madam Chair.