Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s been a long day here. I’ll try to make these really brief and quick so that we can get into detail here. I just wanted to make some comments on the program review office, the good recommendations and the hard work that goes through there. It’s something that I don’t think we should take lightly within this government and start implementing some of those recommendations to make some of our departments more efficient, and spending the dollars that we do have wisely and with quality programs. The only review I’ve seen, I think there are some good recommendations that came out of there.

With the NGO Stabilization Fund, it’s good to continue to see that in there, but I believe for the amount of money that’s in there it doesn’t reflect the amount of applications, the amount of money that’s being asked for. In the terms of distribution across the Northwest Territories, I think there’s got to be a better model so that we can start supporting some of our regional centres and our smaller communities, as they are probably seeing some tough times trying to keep their organizations above ground and all continue to operate. I was glad to see that there are five new GSO positions. I hope each year that we get to add another one or two. They’re very helpful, especially in the small communities with some of our elders and others that are not too familiar with the process of filling out forms. They’re very helpful in getting those completed. They save time further on down the road.

In terms of devolution, just a little bit more information and updates would be good to get as they’re put out to the public. If not just for us, for the public, so that we know what’s going on. Even maybe from the office itself, the implementation team, any challenges that they have speaking or working with the communities.

Something that I’ve brought up before is the Forging the Future Conference that was done last Assembly, and possibly taking the role on, because we had some really strong youth leaders who made some really good contributions, some good feedback, some good recommendations, that I think they wanted to see some action too and they did bring it to the Legislature and I think we should follow up on that.

These are just some quick, basic ones and as we get into detail I’ll have more questions. Seeing as we got a long night here, I just wanted to keep it short.