Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, really wanted to focus that the advocacy to the federal government is based on the core need assessment, the 2014 Core Needs Assessment. The federal government does not need to know, in my opinion, what each community has prioritized. They need to know that core need within the whole NWT is substantial, and then as well, remembering that we have agreed to a partnership tri-territorial that we are going to be advocating to the federal government, so it would be really disrespectful, in my opinion, once we have agreed to that partnership, that we would be looking individually and trying to promote our own.

The three territories when we speak about housing have been speaking in general to the federal government and saying as the North, we have huge core need issues and we need more money. You cannot use the base formula based on population to address our needs.

In general, we're not saying to the federal government that this is how many houses in each community. We're saying we have higher costs of living. We have huge needs. We have lack of infrastructure. We have higher, bigger challenges than communities in the South, so therefore, we need to have base-plus funding. Thank you, Mr. Chair.