Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Mr. Clerk, in the Northwest Territories in the small communities, we have 65 percent of 25 and under in our small communities. We have a population of 43,000 people. My experience over the years shows that we have about 10,000 homes short, and also about 12,000 homeownership repairs we urgently really need and in between about $11 billion to fix up these two urgent issues. The current housing budget right now we have $200 million, and the problem with that is that our policies doesn't work in our small communities. And right now we also have housing corporation in April of last year made application for $60 million to address the housing crisis but they end up fixing up their own housing assets. Housing corporation has been created in 1972, 52 years ago now, and yet we still having housing crisis as we know today. I have a client in Lutselk'e who is going on seven years has taken out 16 buckets of raw sewage out of her bathtub. And we can't get that fixed because of the policies. So my question is to the Premier -- potential Premiers here, my question going forward, what are your plans as Premiers to address the current housing crisis to address new homeownership and homeownership repairs that's much needed to keep up with growing young population and urgent housing crisis we're in? Mahsi.
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