Thank you, Madam Speaker. It's for me, I was really honoured to be able to second this motion because we've been hardest hit, I guess in the whole Beaufort Delta in my riding of Nunakput this last few months. And then our communities are stretched out enough in regards to try to provide service for our youth, and it's being put back towards the community. I really think that something like this will be really beneficial because there's so many hoops you have to jump through to access funds when something like this happens, and then I think being able to access it through the -- I guess the Hamlet of Tuk or the community corporations would be the best access to get these funds that's needed when something like this happens. We've been down this road, Madam Speaker, numerous times in my community.

Finally, you know, as leaders we look to working with our youth and, like, with our mayor and our community corporation chair. We ask instead we brought forward our suggestions and we weren't even close on what they were asking for. So our mayor, our leadership, we went and we met with them and they brought things forward that they wanted, and we accessed funding through the two different pots of funding through our government that we have now and we're really thankful that we did get them to provide this service for our youth that was needed at the time. And I think that when you're put in situations like this, you're more reactive instead of proactive. And we were reactive. We have to be able to work with our youth, you know, our future leaders, our stars I guess, of the community and giving them support to be able to do what they want.

With this money too, like, you know, the funding that we're giving per region I think we could do a lot of good. And just by listening to the -- you know, a good leader will make everybody a leader around them instead of holding them back. We got a couple of young youth in my home community of Tuk are like that. They're young leaders that are really helping promote and uplifting. And I really -- I'm really thankful for them because it got us through this last probably three months have been really tough. But when you look back, I guess we're able to help - all 19 Members of this House.

I called, about two weeks ago I brought up this and I challenged every Member in this House to support what we're doing, to work together for our youth across our territory, sporting events with the schools, with MACA, you know, getting more into the communities, which we've been lacking because of COVID. But I think COVID's over now and we got to start really moving forward for the people and for our youth.

So if we work to this -- I mean work towards this, it's not going to be one -- it's just going to be able to help. It's not going to be able to fix it right away but we're able to help us help you in regards to the communities because like I said, our communities are really shortchanged already in regards to services that they provide because they tried to overextend themselves and all the staff, the hard work that they do. I think that if we work together to get this done. And while I have a chance, I want this as a recorded vote because it's so important to our youth across the territory.

And thank you, Madam Speaker. And I'd like to thank the mover for moving this and, you know, just thoughts and prayers for everybody across our territory that's hurting and still grieving of all what we just been through these last months. Thank you, Madam Speaker.