Thank you, Madam Chair. As stated earlier, the first role of -- one of the first roles of any Legislative Assembly is choosing your executive council, who are there to represent the interests of all residents of the NWT. And so therefore, Madam Chair, I would challenge to say that MLAs have to have faith in those that they elect as the executive council.
Madam Chair, there are -- I think we need to step back here a minute and look at it. If we -- we're signing self-government agreements with Indigenous governments. If we really believe in self-government, then we have to recognize that these Indigenous governments are going to have a role in decision-making. They are going to take on aspects of education, health, housing, you know, all -- right across the spectrum. So I'm sensing a fear of this. But perhaps we should have had this conversation 30 years ago when we started talking about self-government because that is what self-government is. So Indigenous governments are going to get there anyway, Madam Chair. If we really respect them, then we need to let them at the table. That's what this is about. Thank you, Madam Chair.