Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I just wanted to say a couple of things on this motion. This is an important part of the future of our territory and our government. This type of spending is spending that has tremendous returns. We need to be able to be prepared to have people in the workforce. We need daycare that's affordable for people to go to work and turn our economy around. We know that spending in early childhood has tremendous returns and this is asking the government to develop an action plan within the next two years. We're looking down the road for a couple of years when it would be time for us to invest in our people and invest in our territory. These investments, like I said, have tremendous returns and the government should be looking at it from that perspective rather than just looking at the bottom line today and how much it might cost two years down the road. We should try to set the table for individuals to go to work and decrease the social spending across the territory, especially in small communities where we're relying so heavily on social spending by this government. This is one of the moves that is going to turn these things around. Eventually, we have to turn the ship and start to spend strategically. This is part of what I spoke about earlier in the Member’s statement on employment -- that this gives an opportunity for small community spend. People working in daycares is an opportunity for people to be working and any sort of spending in this area has tremendous returns.

I spoke to teachers in small communities where they see the vast difference between kids that have gone to daycare and kids where their parents can't afford to put them in daycare or have no ability to put them in daycare because there's no work. Those kids are coming in are more than a year ahead of some of the kids that are not going to daycare. This is important. This is very important for our people that we have the ability to place kids in this environment, get them ready for school. This has, like I said, tremendous returns. I don't know the exact stats, but kids in daycare are starting off in kindergarten way ahead of kids that are not going into daycare, and I think for that reason this is a motion that I would support strongly. Thank you.