Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to try to deal with this politically sensitive topic. The Gender Equity Unit will be working within the GNWT, as the deputy minister said, to look at things such as the Truth and Reconciliation of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, specifically, and some of the gender issues within our government. The Status of Women Council, within previous governments before that, were kind of used as a support for the Government of the Northwest Territories. However, in the last government, Members who were in that last government remember that the Status of Women Minister at that time was told, "Hands off. Do not work with them. Do not tell them what to do. Do not ask them for any guidance, except for taking their annual report."
Within this government, you will see that the problem was that the legislation says that that council was responsible to the Minister and to support the Minister. The last government bound the Minister's hands and didn't have any authority over that council. Because of that and wishing to support as many services as possible, what we're doing in this government is: we are actually looking at changing the act for the Status of Women Council. I can't say what that looks like yet, because we're working with the Status of Women, but recognizing that we need a unit. You cannot have a Minister responsible for the Status of Women, very critical, without having staffing, so this is about getting the proper support so that the Minister responsible for the Status of Women no longer, in this government, will only have one person trying to save the world. Thank you, Madam Chair.