Masi. [Translation] Mr. Chair, yesterday when we met with the northern leaders, they discussed a lot of things, a lot of issues, and how well we can work together. That word is trust and relationship-building. How well can we work together? Especially from the smaller communities, a lot of their issues are not addressed. This is what we heard a lot.

As the government here, the MLAs and, also, later, the Premier and Executive who will be in place, we want them to be honest to the people. That is the kind of advice that we have gotten from the northern leaders, to have trust and honesty amongst each other and have respect. Today we don't have that.

Another thing, in the English language, we call it "decentralization." When we look at Yellowknife, it is getting bigger. When we come from smaller communities, we have less things to work with. It seems like we are just getting a little bit of trickle of funding, and that is what the chiefs in the smaller communities have been addressing.

I would like to put that as a priority. If we put the smaller communities first as a priority, everybody will flourish economically. When we look at it, we have a lot of issues, drugs and alcohol problems, housing issues, and that is what we call poverty. If we address these issues, we will solve a lot of problems.

The third item, we have housing issues. There are a lot of concerns, and it seems the administration doesn't really understand our situation in the communities, and they seem to be hiding behind policies. They don't look at the community or travel to the community to have firsthand information and to connect with the community. We need to review the policies and maybe make changes to suit the way our communities' situations are. If one person is having difficulties, we need to help that person. This Member is asking, we have a lot of other questions that are still coming. We're here to address some of these questions, but I think these three items are the most important ones. These are my priorities that I want to put in place. Masi. [End of translation]