Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This government’s been doing some really proactive work in this field with early childhood development and looking at the investment that we have been putting forth over the last couple of years. We’re working on this Early Childhood Development Framework, which will be kind of a framework that will outline where we’re going with investing in the development of our infants, prenatal to three or four years old and getting ready for school. But this motion that’s before us here will not only allow for affordable daycare, but it will also increase the amount of people that we’ll get back into our workforce, our residents of the North that are

currently stay-at-home moms, stay-at-home dads. They have the opportunity now to have affordable daycare, but also get into the workforce.

So it’s a win-win situation, from what I see, and it’s about putting the pieces together. We’ve got the framework coming and we need those centres available for people in the Northwest Territories. It’s about putting those pieces together so that our government, our territory can be self-sustaining in the future and that our residents don’t leave and that they stay here in the North and that we attract more people from the South who want to come up here and work in our economy, but also want to have families and have daycares to support these families.

So I’m glad that Mr. Bromley and Mr. Yakeleya brought this motion forward and I do look forward to seeing what the outcome of this is, and I will be voting in favour of the motion. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.