I think it is an excellent question, because I think that immediate action has to happen. What I am hearing from the Member is that make-work programs are necessary for employment, not study for another two years, but now. I think that we have to be creative in our thinking at our level to ensure that we accommodate those smaller communities and the regions to be able to actually do what we say we want to do, to spread the wealth to the smaller communities and the regions, to make sure that people have the choice of wanting to be able to be employed, whether it be in a fire smart program, whether it be planting trees, whether it be cutting wood. These are part of the green program, and you can get funds for that from the federal government to access it, but there is also the whole idea of the ITI programs that are under our departments. They have to be shared equally.

I find that, many times, you have Ministers or people in those departments who kind of dictate where the money is going to go. I think that we have to look at those very carefully to ensure that everybody has a fair share. I strongly believe that the smaller communities should have a say, especially the Indigenous governments. That is when they usually knock on the door, when there is no employment, when people don't have any food on the table, and during a crisis situation. Make-work programs are very important to the small communities.

On a larger scale, the regions have to be able to have the staff to be able to do that, to answer the call for help to the smaller communities. Lots of times in the past, at least, eight years now, that has not been happening. What has happened is that the strong central government has taken over and have left us in a bind where we cannot serve the communities. They have taken most of our senior staff away and left everybody kind of hanging. We cannot do that. We have to build those partnerships again. We have to ensure that we are serving all of the Northwest Territories equally. Thank you.