Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I too, like my previous colleague, would like to recap what was done and accomplished over the last seven months here. In particular I think we, as newcomers, have participated in our first publication of this Assembly’s budget, and it has certainly been a learning process during the seven months. We look forward to moving ahead for the remaining term. In light of what we have achieved over the last several months, if we were to summarize and analyze each department, starting with the left-hand side. If we look at ECE… I might miss or not mention a few, but there have been a number of accomplishments over the last several months, including the publication of the Skills 4 Success, Mr. Speaker, and also the K to 12 document strategy. You have the housing federal support that have come in and housing strategy in place. It is a problematic department trying to keep everybody happy and the high operating costs of this part of the country. You have Health and Social Services there getting ready to initiate this new legislative authority, which I think would better cover the previous Assembly’s challenges in supporting and implementing the higher standard of healthcare. Then you have ITI, which has undertaken several initiatives on regulatory reform and analyzing the challenges that we need in preparation for implementing devoluted responsibilities. Then you have Finance, and Finance completed a challenging reduced budget to try and maintain satisfactory challenges for this side of the House, Members that represent high operating remote areas. Then you have Transportation with the many challenges, again, in a high operating cost area, having to build a road which would probably take double the cost compared to the same length dimensional road in, say, the province of British Columbia or Saskatchewan.
Member for Sahtu, your time for Member’s statements has expired.
I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.
---Unanimous consent granted
Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. The Department of Justice has a new department, or this whole government has a new department, with the Public Transparency, which we hope would ease some comfort in the outstanding land claims and the outstanding self-government initiatives. I think I tried to summarize the various departments and the challenges we have, and I look forward in moving ahead. I will look forward to rolling up our sleeves and getting down to business, so we can be mindful of the 60 to 70, 80 per cent unemployment, which I assure you we do have in these smaller communities. Faced with the reductions undertaken by this Assembly, I am quite certain we can probably satisfactorily say it is better to achieve supporting and creating two employment positions versus ten, although our target is for ten. But we are trying our best, Mr. Speaker. I thank everybody here today. Mahsi.
