Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the building. I think we need to take the time to thank the Premiers, Speakers, Ministers and MLAs that came before us that had to make the difficult decisions to build this building. Today we have the opportunity.
We also need to thank the former staff, like my colleague had mentioned, Mr. Hamilton, and some of the other staff that have been before that had to make the tough decisions on how we build this building. We need to thank the Building Society for their strong efforts and vision to finance and complete the construction of this building.
Two years ago when I started here in this position, it was very intimidating to get up and speak in this House. It’s a very majestic building. Members of the public often come to the building. We are very proud to show the building off to them. We have people from around the country of Canada who come here and we show off our building. It’s one of the nicest Legislative Assembly buildings in Canada.
We just had some foreign dignitaries come here. We’re very proud to show the building, show some of the attributes that are here, talk about how much light is in the building and how well designed it is.
On this date today, we have to thank those people who came before us who had the vision and had to make the tough decisions. I know we didn’t have the money at the time and we probably wouldn’t do something like this today just because of the fiscal restraint that we have. I’d like to thank those Members who came today and all those Members that had vision. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Colleagues, before we move on this morning, I’d like to welcome back to the House former Premier Floyd Roland and Angela.
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It’s good to see you back. The honourable Member for Yellowknife Centre, Mr. Hawkins.
