I believe the question was: what are the top three priorities we heard yesterday at the meeting? I think we are all going to have very similar ones. Relationships was the biggest issue that we talked about, and that goes to the relationship between the government and Indigenous governments in terms of negotiating these land claim settlements. There was a lot of love around the room yesterday. It was a little different than some of the meetings I have been to with Indigenous governments over the past few years, but it was good. Everyone was very positive. Everyone saw a lot of hope with this Assembly, and everyone, every single government there seemed to genuinely want better relationships with the territory. I think what we need to do is keep that going. That is the number one priority that came out of that.

Implementation was the other one that was discussed quite a bit. Once a claim has settled, once a self-government agreement has been settled, then there's the implementation. There are funding issues. There are all sorts of things surrounding that that need to get dealt with. We need to have the conversation about what the GNWT's role is going to be in this territory in the future. From there, we can start designing programs and start pushing programs out to the communities, or have the communities set the programs. We need to be able to design services and programs for communities who are going to be receiving and delivering those. That is based on what the government's role is going to be in the future. We don't know. Once the entire territory is settled and there are self-government agreements that are being implemented, what's the role for the territory? We need to figure that out so we know how to proceed.

The other thing that I found came up almost as much as anything else was education. I wasn't surprised because there has been a groundswell of support across the territory for reforming education, because people see that it is an unfair distribution of education in the territory. Yellowknife and Hay River, we both have excellent results. I spoke with a grad not that long ago, well, a while now, and there were students going to pre-med. There were physicists. We are graduating a lot of high-quality students in the regional centres and in Yellowknife, but students in the communities aren't getting those same opportunities. That's just not fair. There is nothing more basic than education, I would say.

We have had diamond mines for decades in the territory. Yellowknife has done well. If we get more diamond mines, Yellowknife will continue to do well, but how does the rest of the territory benefit from that? Then, I think it's education, and I think people see that that's the way to go. We need to reconsider how we deliver education in this territory. I know there are some initiatives that are happening, but I truly believe that the one thing that is similar to very affluent and successful societies is education, and we need to make that a focus of not just this Assembly, but of the next 20, 30, 40, 50 years.

I always think: why don't people around the world look to the territory and say, "We want to be like that." We talked about education in Norway. We talk about all of these things. We can be that. People can say, "Look what they've done. They've had graduation rates of 60 percent, 40 percent in these communities, and they've turned that right around. Now, they are the most well-educated territory in Canada, or one in the world."

Sorry, I went off on a little tangent on there. I'm just passionate about education. The people we spoke with yesterday were also passionate about education. Thank you, Mr. Chair.