Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm just going to make a couple comments. I just -- one of the comments that my -- one of my colleagues said about Indigenous governments.

Indigenous governments always facilitate that they always want to have control of the funds for housing. It goes back, like, 17 years now, and every time there was allocations of $59 million to the federal -- to the territorial government, it was just another roadblock for them to actually do -- to actually control the funds and do the work. So saying that -- because I know that's the way it was every time we met as a group.

I also want to just make a statement on -- policy is not always the correct way of looking at the delivery of services. Once again, one size doesn't fit all. There are individual needs out there that have to be addressed. And many times as ordinary MLAs, we get calls of people who are couch surfing, people whose names have been on for four years on lists and have never been called. There's always these other issues that are very dear to all of us in this House, including the Cabinet Members, I'm sure.

And so you get into the homelessness issue and, you know, homelessness you said was, Madam Premier, one of your -- one of the things that you advocated on before your time as an MLA. And this government has addressed a lot of those concerns within the last budget with -- in this past budget with -- this budget that we're doing I should say with Hay River and Fort Simpson. And coming from a large community, a regional community, and all small communities, we should all be addressing homelessness in -- in our -- in a way that is innovative and -- so that we can all succeed. And I just feel that, you know, sometimes we have -- we have -- we have mini roadblocks just by expressing on some of the things we want to do.

And in consensus government, we should be able to sit down and work through those roadblocks but when you just get a -- no commitment and just oh, you're going to go back to the federal government, well, by that time there will be double the amount of homelessness in the community, and I don't agree with that.

And you know, I've been advocating on behalf of a group on homelessness, and this group has carried the homelessness -- majority of the funds have been coming from this one group, and now they have a solution, and they have an innovative solution, and I'd just like to know how you feel, Madam Premier, about the whole issue of homelessness and the whole issue of policy that the delivery of services doesn't always one size fits all. Thank you, Mr. Chair.