Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to take a look under grants in lieu of taxes. I want to just make a couple comments, and I'll try to keep it short as possible.

I just wanted to mention that as the new MLA for Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh riding, I also come from a background of being the Chief of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and the Akaitcho Territory government. And I also just wanted to just mention on some of the feedback I've been getting back from my constituents in regards to taxation, and I just want to talk about two things -- or a couple things I guess.

One is the honour of the Crown and when we say that, it's -- when the treaty was made in 1900, July 25th. In that treaty that talked about there would be no imposition of tax of any kind. And it didn't say in the Commissioner's report whether you had to be on reserve or not. It was very clear that there'd be no -- no imposition of tax.

And so later on, the 1967, the territorial council was created, and we called it the NWT Act, that governs what we have here today. And since devolution in 2014, it gave the territorial government greater control over lands and federal lands in the Northwest Territories. But the thing is that in our riding, and our constituents are bringing to my attention that, you know, we got cabin owners that are being taxed and they're deeply concerned about that. But yet at the same time, I'm not sure how the -- the MACA is working with the -- the other department that's working on the claims for the GNWT at the main table discussion with the Akaitcho Territory government and the NWT Metis Nation. Regardless, you know, there is a process already in place and some of my constituent members are very concerned that the taxation of their cabins and that kind of thing is a concern to them.

So I'm not really sure how or where MACA is in terms of trying to get this thing resolved, but what I would like to see is if that issue could be either looked at or put on hold until the resolution of these outstanding payments are done. Thank you, Madam Chair.