Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I appreciate the commitment of pursuing additional funding that the 19th Assembly can also secure for the 20th Assembly as well. I think that's really important to keep that narrative of housing going and the pursuit of access to safe and secure housing for all Northerners going.

My next comment that I wanted to make in regards to that one is that that first piece of work with partners, including the federal and Indigenous governments to increase funding for housing programs, to me housing programs are completely different than the co-investment fund and the Rapid Housing Initiative because those, really, are infrastructure dollars for housing. And, in fact, with the Rapid Housing Initiative, it actually came with a caveat of having to secure operations and maintenance dollars for the future of that investment in housing infrastructure and so I really question whether the progress to date of referencing the $60 million carve-off and the Rapid Housing Initiative actually achieves the target of this priority at all, because it doesn't speak to ongoing funding for actual programs for housing. And so the programs in my mind, really would be programs that allow for operations and maintenance on ongoing basis of housing.

And so is, then, really, this item not fulfilled and that really the piece of securing funding for housing programs needs to be more in the form of ongoing consistent funding for operations and maintenance for the NWT Housing Corporation. Thank you, Mr. Chair.