Thank you, Madam Chair. So Madam Chair, I don't have the mandate document in front of me, but I know ITI's commitment certainly was to work with Indigenous and community governments in order to identify and advance economic opportunities. I can say, Madam Chair, with respect to the regional economic development plans, and what those would look like and what they may or may not include, such as targets, it was my direction that we were not going to direct that from ITI, that we were going to go out to the regions themselves and to the community governments and Indigenous governments themselves first, to figure out how they wanted us to actually do the development. So that did slow down the development a little bit, I acknowledge, but the end product, I believe, is going to be better. And it was under their guidance that the decision was made to have a facilitator that would look at the total -- the total plan and the total strategy. So there's some consistency between Northwest Territories regions but then also that each -- each region has its own person there to help them develop from -- with a local focus, help them develop on what their area of expertise or specialty might be. There's no doubt going to be some difference between, you know, for instance, communities that are stronger in fishing versus others that may be stronger with arts or with ecotourism, for example. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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