Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I'm very happy to see that, and that work excites me. I think as part of that work, I'm wondering if the department will do some evaluation of shelter costs versus housing costs. I think it's well established that shelters are extremely expensive and, you know, one GNWT staff person who we -- when we create a shelter could actually just pay for six people to be housed. And I think when it's coming out of different departments, perhaps that analysis is not being done, and I think perhaps some of our shelters, although, you know, we need them until one day perhaps we end homelessness, the budgets haven't been looked through seriously to know whether they could actually just in fact be ending homelessness through a housing-first model. And so I'm wondering if as part of this work, we can create some sort of policy to know when shelter costs have just surpassed the point where it's ridiculous; they are not, in fact, housing. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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