Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I just want to as well echo what my colleagues from Yellowknife had said, is that -- and, you know, these are mental health dollars as far as I'm concerned as well. You know, we're coming out of a pandemic and, you know, we know that there's -- there's issues out there. And, you know, when I look at this COVID relief funding and, you know, it's not there anymore and now is when we actually need it to, you know, promote sports and get people back -- back, you know, playing hockey, skiing, you know, jogging, whatever, biking, you name it. And, you know, it -- this money here, you know, it's not a lot but it goes a long ways. It impacts education. It impacts health. And, you know, it builds self-esteem. It does all -- does all those things. And for some reason, we sort of put it on the back burner and I'm not sure why that is. Maybe it's because most of us are older and we're this -- you know, a quiet and -- lifestyle and, you know, don't see exercise as important. But it is. So I would just -- and I'm just going to make a comment here too. So -- and I don't need any answers or anything. I just want to make sure that the department knows how important, you know, sports, recreation and youth are. And the know the Minister knows that already. And I would just like them to, you know, give it a little bit more emphasis, and especially in the -- especially in the -- like, in the small communities where there's not a lot to do, and we got to make sure that, you know, they have access to -- to what we take for granted in -- you know, in Yellowknife, in Hay River, in Fort Simpson, in the big communities. Like, you know, we got some nice facilities there. You know, we've got a lot more people to -- to volunteer and, whereas the smaller communities, they don't -- they don't have that luxury. So I think that, you know, when we're looking at these numbers, we got remember all that and just the impact that it has on the lives of people that we're trying to -- those are the people that we're trying to, you know, set on a path of -- where they're going to take -- you know, take over from us. They're going to be the school teachers. They're going to be the trades people. And lawyers, doctors, you name it. So -- yeah, so more of a comment and I know the Minister is -- I don't have to preach to the converted. So thank you.
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