Thank you, Madam Chair. Yesterday, when we were at the leaders' round table, we were told by some of the leadership not to forget our small communities. That was important. That kind of hit home, because a lot of small communities feel like they are being left behind by our larger centres.

In this day and age, there is no reason why some of our smaller communities should go without adequate communication systems, i.e., high-speed Internet access. There was recently a new fibre optic cable installed. It bypassed Lutselk'e but connected other communities. This has business and education implications. Say you couldn't teleconference, and then you are forced to fly out, for example, or if you want to take an online learning course, it is a little bit difficult to do that if you have really slow Internet. Even during my door-to-door when I was trying to communicate out to a team or to my family, it was very difficult to communicate. It was very slow.

My question to the Premier candidates is: if elected, what will you do as a Premier to ensure that all of our small communities have adequate communication systems that are on par with our larger centres? Thank you.