Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to rise on a point of personal explanation under section 1.8(1) of our rules. It says a Member may rise -- or sorry, raise a point of personal explanation in the Assembly at the earliest opportunity. This is my first opportunity.
The headline in the front page of today's Northern News Services, the Yellowknifer, reads as follows: YK Centre MLA wants finance Minister ousted. The headline is misleading with their word choice of "ousted". It leads the reading with the confusing impression that I want the Minister removed from Cabinet. I know this because a few people had inquired regarding the confusion it has caused. To be clear, no one has been angry but certainly confused with the impression that I wanted her removed from Cabinet, and they wanted to understand why. The article within the newspaper, without forensic review, appears on surface to be correct, but you have to decide to read it after the headline. For the record, I am only suggesting that it may be time to consider having a shuffle in Cabinet based on my concerns raised of which won't be revisited today.
Might I end on this point, Mr. Speaker, it is true that sensationalized headlines can be an opportunity to pump up and draw interest to an issue but left to stand alone it can cause confusion and unintended results which it appears to have had. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I thank the Assembly for hearing this clarification. Thank you.