Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I would like to speak about the Northern Housing Summit that was held in Inuvik this past April. This summit was attended by over 100 subject matter experts and community leaders from across the Northwest Territories and beyond. The focus of the summit was on communicating housing investment opportunities to stakeholders, providing a collaborative forum for partnership building exempting community design and capacity building tools, and boosting community and stakeholder relationships, an excellent networking engagement.

Mr. Speaker, I recognize that this summit has been discussed here in the Legislature in detail before, but now, more than three months after the event, I would like to talk about what came out of the summit and what are the next steps.

According to a summary report by the NWT Housing Corporation that was tabled in the last session, the summit was largely successful. Communities, Indigenous organizations, and other stakeholders who were given valuable information about investment opportunities such as the National Housing Co-Investment Fund. It gave stakeholders the chance to consider how to realize their housing aspirations and plan for healthy communities now and into the future. It allows allowed for building partnerships and deepening relationships between many individuals and organizations.

Mr. Speaker, I am interested in where we go from here. As I see it, we have an opportunity to develop some meaningful, local, appropriate housing initiatives all across the Northwest Territories. If we can make efficient use of the National Housing Co-investment Fund, there is a $60-million carve-out just for the Northwest Territories. Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to complete my statement.

---Unanimous consent granted