Thank you, Mr. Chair. As an Indigenous woman, our elders and our seniors are very important to us culturally, and I think that crosses all cultures in all honesty. They are our knowledge keepers, and we need to value them. We need to make sure that their last days are actually in a place that is respectful and has dignity.

I think the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation has done a lot. We have built seniors' units in communities that have a cultural component to them. We are looking at a new multigenerational design of a home that will accommodate for larger families to be able to care for their aging members, with ramps, et cetera.

We have implemented, thanks to the lobbying of the Regular MLAs, the additional funding for seniors. They can still apply for the CARE Major, CARE Minor programs, up to $100,000 for CARE Major. They can still get the CARE PM, Preventative Maintenance program, but they can also get special funding to address the needs of seniors.

We are doing a study within this new year, actually, about what their needs are, and not only what their needs are and how many seniors are out there, but what do they want? What is it they want to see in their homes? I think that is a missing component that we need to address.

I do value our seniors, very much so. I value my elders. One thing I should also state is that I have walked down the streets of Yellowknife, and I see some of the seniors in buildings that I think are unsafe. One of the projects we are looking at as well is: can we do a seniors' housing unit that is not based on income, but actually addresses just a seniors' housing unit, so that all seniors can live in that, market seniors and low-income seniors? Safety is what I am looking at. I take it very seriously, and we will be focusing in more depth on how we can support them, not only to give them a house, but a house that they want to live in. Thank you, Mr. Chair.