Thank you, Madam Speaker. Again, I'll repeat myself from what I said last night. As an Inuvialuit beneficiary living in my home town of Tuktoyaktuk, 17 miles away from Tuktoyaktuk is Kittegaryumiut. We lost 3,000 people in the pandemic in the 1920s. I think that, when COVID-19 first came out, we didn't know what we were doing. Everybody was in a panic. Everybody tried to do their best. Our government tried to do their best. Now, we have to do our best in regard to the safety of the people of the Northwest Territories, and for me, the money, 8 million bucks, one life saved is worth it. I don't care about the money. I care about the safety; the safety of my people. You know as well as I do that our hamlets, our communities, tried to shut down the highway going into Tuktoyaktuk, into Inuvik. They had to try roadblocks and things like that. They were so worried about the pandemic coming because, growing up in Tuktoyaktuk, you hear stories about those days, about what happened. It's different. When you say "pandemic," or something like that, it scares people, especially our elders. That's the most important for me, is our elders and our youths.

You look back, and we have to try to get through this together as 19 Members. It's not the government. It's all our responsibility to get through this. We have to get through this pandemic. It's a new world in regard to this COVID-19 world, and it's the safety or our constituents that's our priority. For the COVID secretariat, I will be supporting it. I have all the respect in the world for every one of these Members in this House, Madam Speaker, and everybody has to make their own choice upon their own judgment. When I look at this, it's bigger than that. It's so big, we just hope it doesn't hit our communities. I will be in support of it. Thank you, Madam Speaker.