Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I think if we went out and we took a trip around the Northwest Territories, that a lot of communities would say that we're not meeting the needs of the Northwest Territories, especially when it comes to youth and sport and recreation. When the Standing Committee on Social Development spoke with communities and spoke with youth organizations, spoke with residents of the Northwest Territories in regards to child and family services, homelessness prevention, and suicide prevention, one of the main key commonalities that we heard with every single one of those engagements in communities was a need for activities, especially youth activities across the territory.
And I know that I'm speaking the Minister's language here and I'm preaching to the converted, but I think it really is important to repeat that kids and youth across the territory are asking for activities. They're telling the Government of the Northwest Territories that they do not have equitable or accessible access to youth and sport activities to provide healthy safe alternatives to what they are doing and what we are losing them to. And so I think that a lot of people would disagree with that.
I know that I spoke with the Minister earlier on in this sitting about the sport recreation -- or sorry, sport, physical activity, and recreation framework, known as SPAR framework, and that there was a commitment that that would be done in the next few months here in this upcoming fiscal year. And so one of the things I wanted to know was if the SPAR fund has a surplus and if the Minister can let us know what that is? Thank you.