Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to welcome everybody back to the Assembly for a six-week session. Mr. Speaker, as you are well aware, two regions in the North have been working on bids for the Arctic Winter Games in 2018. The Beau-Delta and the South Slave have been working hard on these proposals. They’re rallying all their volunteers in all their different sports.
These will be exciting games. It has been decades since the Arctic Winter Games have been outside the capital of the Northwest Territories. It will be exciting to have them back in our regional centres.
I would like to thank all the volunteers in the South Slave region who worked so hard to put this bid together for the South Slave. The International Committee came to the Northwest Territories, seeing all the communities, all the facilities, and we are hoping that they are impressed with our South Slave bid.
In 1978 Hay River and Pine Point hosted the Arctic Winter Games, and we’re hoping that 2018 will be the 40th anniversary of a South Slave Arctic Winter Games.
Again, I would like to congratulate the bid committees for all their hard work, and as the ongoing joke is, the MLAs from the South Slave will be happy to pick up the Beau-Del representatives at the airport in Hay River.
On a following note, I’d like to congratulate some of the participants that are going to the Canada Winter Games in Prince George. The Canada Games will be from February 13th to March 1st and I have four participants. I have Novelyn Bordey, Dawson McMeekin, Amanda Roach, and Curtis Rowe as a coach. Congratulations to them. Good luck in Canada Winter Games. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Member for Deh Cho, Mr. Nadli.
