Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a couple of brief comments. I'd like to thank the mover for bringing this motion forward. We have a lot of challenges in our small communities as I have said for the last four years now. In Tsiigehtchic, for example, we haven't had a daycare there for over nine years now. You know, that's pretty challenging, whether it's single mothers or parents that want to go to work, but they can't, because there's no daycare. It's pretty difficult to find a babysitter in the community, too. Those are the challenges we face. A lot of the Ministers may not understand that, not coming from a small community, but those are the facts that we deal with on a daily basis in my community.
Also, creating a couple of new jobs is huge for a community like Tsiigehtchic. Also, as the Ministers may recall, in the last term there was an investment in an Inuvik facility, a little over $1 million, I believe. It did a lot for the community but they're still challenged. They're paying in the neighbourhood of $800 or more per child per month. With a family living in that community with two or three children, it's very difficult for the parents, especially with the high cost of living in our region. Those are challenges that our residents face and we have to keep that in mind. I know for the last four years that I've been bringing up daycares that's the same answer we get all the time: “Well, the federal government is making investment in this so we can't put money into it.” That's the answer I have been getting for four years, and I heard a little bit of that earlier today. I think it's time that we try to make our contribution to this. Thank you.