Marci cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as Regular Members in the House, we are in the process of asking government to put more money into the anti-poverty movement. Today, the Minister of Health had laid out all of the work this government is doing to combat poverty; however, most of those initiatives had been there for years, and we will have a very high percentage of people in poverty in the Northwest Territories, Mr. Speaker.

I wanted to get up quickly after the speech that the Minister of Health and Social Services made to respond to it quickly because I don’t want people to believe that $438,000,000 of additional dollars is being put into anti-poverty. Of the money that the Minister spoke of under the anti-poverty Minister's statement, there is about $36,000,000 of the $438,000,000 that he spoke of in his Minister's statement on actually combating poverty.

Most of these initiatives are not targeted towards people who are in poverty. I just wanted to make sure that I got that out. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.