Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I do want to echo some of the concerns that I -- it certainly has been my experience with two children who are under the age of 12 that this is a difficult job. It's a difficult job for a parent. It doesn't matter of your gender. But I worry that it becomes a barrier. I worry that thinking of an advance about whether to run, as people may well be doing in the next year, they will worry whether or not this job is barrier to them if they have young children who are of that age.

This week alone, I have eight different family member -- eight different families in this city helping me get my kids where they need to be this week. There's no child care expenses that I'm charging for that. I also have two different child care arrangements between yesterday and today and Wednesday when I will be on work duties up until 8 o'clock or 9 o'clock at night. And, you know, would have more, but I have a spouse who comes back into town just in time to cover the last night. So, you know, the child care expense, it doesn't change that reality for people but it acknowledges the reality. And I am someone who has tried to make those claims, because I actually want to make use of the facilities that are available to us. I want to make the point that we do need it. I hope other people will use it. I appreciate the effort here. I think what they're trying to do is take the stigma away. Take the stigma away of having to be someone who says, I can't always travel, having to be the person that says I can't always go to the event, having to be the person that's having to make those arrangements and walk out of the meeting to take phone calls from their children, I think there's a stigma associated with that. And that's why I have used the fund that's available on the days that were appropriate for me to do so. I'm glad it's there. I think this is a conversation that's good to have. I also don't think that making a blanket amount is the solution. This won't cover the cost of having to fly someone's child for folks who are from outside the community, from outside Yellowknife. I don't know how those of you who are outside of Yellowknife are managing; I really don't. But $2,000 won't do it. I hope people access the funds that are here now so that it makes it a little more palatable to them. And I hope this discussion reminds us the fact those funds are there and that there shouldn't be stigma associated with using them. Thank you, Madam Chair.