Sure, Madam Chair. Thank you. Yes, I'm happy that -- you know, thrilled to hear that kind of line of comment. Not that it's new or surprising, but it needs to be said and resaid. But I would say that there is hope here. I mean this is, I think -- I've, in the budget session, spend maybe a bit more of my time speaking about budget and finance and sometimes that can seem a little bit more daunting, but Madam Chair, sometimes when I sit over in this -- with this hat on, there's actually quite a lot of energy and potential in the North. There's a lot of interest across the three territories in how to, all of us, see increase in exploration. There's a real feeling that that -- the future of Canada can see -- see itself in the North. And, you know, you start to look at something like Mackenzie Valley or the Slave Geologic Province, and those are nation building. And the reason you say nation building is because those are opportunities that will not only have impacts for the residents and communities in the Northwest Territories but would have potential impacts for all of Canada and could bring people, then, to the North, to bring them to the North for these opportunities. And so, you know, I -- I don't think the future is bleak. I actually think there's a lot of potential. But we do have work we have to get done, whether it's in programs like MIP, which provides the incentives for exploration companies; whether it's in a mining exploration credit, which has been something that the federal government, CanNor was actually saying is an idea that we should be looking at. So there's a lot of things that can be done. And then we just look at the potential we have. The critical minerals and metals and what that's doing internationally and here we could be the next -- the next big place for a lot of those -- or what's happening on commodities like diamond and gold where prices are going up. But, you know what, they're -- as -- those are the kinds of companies where they want to be associated to good environmental social factors. Well, look at how we do business in the North. This is where business is done differently.
So there's a lot of really good stories here in the Northwest Territories. We do need to get them out. There are challenges. There's high costs. But there are programs in the work. There's efforts in the work to try to mitigate those costs or to outweigh them with other positive benefits such as, you know, showing what kind of governance factors we have here in the Northwest Territories and the relationships with Indigenous governments. Thank you, Madam Chair.