Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ll be speaking about fruits, but fruits of labour, Mr. Speaker. The long service awards are being held in the Deh Cho region, most particularly in Fort Simpson today. I, too, would like to offer my congratulations to the employees of the Government of the Northwest Territories who will be honoured for their dedication and commitment to our public service.
The celebration this afternoon in Fort Simpson, which I attended last year, is always good for employers to recognize our hardworking employees, and especially those that have very long service awards. There are 70 employees that will be recognized and about 60 of them come from my riding alone. I would just like to say congratulations once again for achieving this milestone in their careers.
I do want to say that we, as government, as MLAs, as Ministers, often talk about general policy guidelines. We handle appeals from our constituents and we make changes, but it’s the front-line workers out there in our communities and the regions that actually carry these out on a daily basis. I want to say that I recognize it. I’m sure that all my colleagues here recognize their hard work in carrying out our directions, some of it not very popular at times but, at the same time, they’re good, hard workers and they carry out our initiatives as we think that it’s good for the government and for the people of the Northwest Territories.
I would just like to congratulate them for working so hard, especially in Fort Simpson. There will be some good food this afternoon and they’ll be having their festivities on our tourism infrastructure, as I like to call it, which is our golf course. I wish them a great afternoon and, once again, keep up the good work. Mahsi cho.
Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. The Member for Weledeh, Mr. Bromley.
