Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will be supporting the motion. It's important to show to the public and prove to the public that we're doing something. It's nice that we have great briefings of an amazing amount of information behind closed doors and in those secret meetings, but it's time that we show that we're actually getting out there and doing something with that information and getting feedback from the people who need it.

We know the cost of living makes it a terrible burden to live here in the Northwest Territories, and it needs to be a priority by this government. I'm not sure how we can do it in the sense of we don't have every answer, but trying something is certainly the right way to get those answers. By proving that we're doing something, is the right way. By sitting back and letting this sort of evolve on their own, is not the right way to do it, so I'll be supporting this motion.

Another reason that it compels me to vote in favour of it is because we have to make sure we're doing something for the little guy. The little guy out there tends to just keep paying more and more taxes and getting ignored by the process. If you're a big guy and you come here and say I'll create five jobs if you subsidize me multimillions of dollars for diamond cutting plants or whatnot, we seem to find money for those things. This is something that the little guy will feel that we're going to work on to improve his life.

That's why I ran for politics, is to give people the opportunity to improve their lives and to get out there. That's why we should all be here. But it seems like government continually wants to make sure that they are there for the big guys. To me, this motion clearly says that we give a darn about the working poor. Those people are going to have to heat their houses. People are going to suffer trying to find the extra money to get through this difficult winter. This clearly says, in my mind, you have to support this because if you don't, well, again, maybe the big guy is important to them, not the little guy that elected us. So I cherish that very close to the heart. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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