Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So 2020 is a bit of an outlier in every single way so let me go back to 2016.
So in 2016, there were 9300 jobs in communities outside of Yellowknife. There was about 4600 in the small communities, so excluding Yellowknife, Hay River, Inuvik and Fort Smith.
In 2017, we introduced the Small Community Support program, and that's $4.2 million a year the communities can use to develop or support jobs. Fast forward to 2019, there were 5072 jobs in the smallest of communities. So from 4600 to almost 5100. And if you look at all the communities outside of Yellowknife, there was an increase of around 1300 jobs. So, yes, the number of jobs in small communities are increasing. There's obviously a blip in 2020. But we're back on track. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.