Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Honourable Joseph Handley, the Premier. It gets back to, again, my Member's statement from earlier and it has to do with the cost of living. I know that the issue of arctic sovereignty has been an issue that's been in the media quite a bit lately. The appetite for the Government of the Northwest Territories to attract and retain residents here is something that I think is very important. We have to make it advantageous for residents to live here. Although this year's a little bit different, we can't keep relying on our nice weather to try to attract people to live here, Mr. Speaker.

So I'd like to start off by asking, I know my colleague Mr. Hawkins asked the Finance Minister about what the plans were, and obviously there's an excuse now with the new government in Ottawa and all of a sudden things are stalled. We're working with the new government. But what about the last two-and-a-half years, Mr. Speaker? What has the government done to address the high cost of living here? I guess the first question I'd like to hear from the Premier is, when will the government start to get to work on some of the issues that I've raised in my Member's statement and other Member's have raised in this House? When can residents here in the Northwest Territories expect this government to deliver on some of these things? Thank you.