Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll try to keep my comments as brief as possible. As Mr. Rodgers, or sorry, the MLA from Inuvik Boot Lake -- I'm sorry, Mr. Chair. As the MLA from Inuvik Boot Lake pointed out, this was reviewed extensively at committee. And I want to thank committee Members -- because I chair the committee -- for all their hard work on this bill. We certainly spent a fair bit of time with it, getting it to a place where we felt everyone could support it with amendments. And as the Member noted, it did get to this place with the bill with the 2-year latency periods. I just want to say, furthermore, you know, I made a point of speaking to constituents about this. And speaking to them about their feelings on, you know, there are certainly pros and cons to taking things out of regs and putting them in the bill itself. And I spoke to them about that. And the feeling was that the tradeoff for the 2-year latency period was worth it.
And so I did want to make sure that everybody understood that. And, yeah, so I had a conversation with constituents about it. And just note that, you know, I have to say, Mr. Chair, that I think this is a pretty deeply personal issue for the riding of Frame Lake.
You know, for one very obvious reason. And also just that there's a number of firefighters that live in this riding and so I feel particularly obligated to support them as their representative. And, you know, so this is one that I certainly do support. And I guess I'll leave it at that for tonight, noting that we are on o'clock. Thank you, Mr. Chair.