Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Yeah, that's kind of disheartening to hear from the Minister that works for the people of the Northwest Territories, especially for people, the residents of the small communities, because I come from a small community too, and I don't see that. I see we need help. Even if there's a rec coordinator, that person needs help. And I really, you know, would recommend that the Minister get his staff, his trained staff, out into the communities, every community, and to meet with the hamlet and the recreation staff and see how we can, you know, progress the sports in the small communities, especially the training that's probably required and the coaching required, the certification that's required, so that we can encourage the next batch of youth coming up. And especially the times when, you know, you're training for Arctic Winter Games. There's many sport in Arctic Winter Games and you need to make people aware of those things, those opportunities. It seems like we have to start from ground one, day one.
I used to be involved in recreation way back in the early days, before it was even a paid program, and we were advocating for a position, a paid position at that time. There was a few of us around that time. And here I am, back to square one putting that out there. And I really want the Minister to consider sport and recreation as a priority for the communities and his department to get out and help the communities. That's more or less a comment that I just make there, Mr. Speaker. Mahsi.