I ran on the mandate of stronger communities and stronger regions. The people of the NWT want proper services in small communities, and I feel that we have to meet that mandate. A lot of jobs have been pulled out of regional centres and they have to be reinstated. I feel that, when you have a strong regional centre at that level to serve the smaller communities in your region, everybody is happy.

There has to also be a connection between the government that elected them and the government that serves them. I feel that there has been a disconnect. It is obvious from some of the complaints that we even saw yesterday, and I think that there is a gap. The gap has to be filled, and we have to fill the gap. We are all elected to do that, and that is what we expect. We expect the people who work in deputy minister levels and any part of the bureaucracy to also fill that gap on our behalf. Thank you.