Thank you, Mr. Chair. And, Mr. Chair, you know, it's been talked about for many years that municipalities are underfunded. Frankly, when it comes to our infrastructure, the GNWT is also underfunded. And I think that's where that big disparity is. We just don't have the funds as a government to do everything we need to do. And so at our level, at the municipal level, everyone is doing their best with the resources that we have. There are things that we can do in terms of land. I think we can make a lot of progress on land claims and settling those and freeing up land. I think that we have spent far too long in the territory talking about land because there's these ongoing processes that have been going on for generations in some cases that we can deal with; we can address those. And so by doing that, by putting our focuses there, we will get past this ongoing conversation about land. But we need to realize that, you know, this is an Indigenous territory. These are Indigenous lands. And we can't do things contrary to our treaty obligations or to the bargaining in good faith that we're doing with negotiating the agreements. Thank you.
R.J. Simpson on Questions by Members
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