Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, this is a very important one. We heard from multiple youth who were involved in or are involved in the child and family services system in care, or children who are not currently in care but that have been involved with the child and family services system and are choosing to use shelters to access safe housing. There is currently no available one-bedrooms or bachelor-type living -- or living options available in most of our communities in the Northwest Territories. And so when youth, or youth who age out of care, are looking for a place to live, a safe place to live, there aren't options out there. So youth often end up being in either visible or invisible homelessness situations.

We in Yellowknife here are privileged enough to have the North's only youth shelter. And this shelter cannot serve all of the youth in Yellowknife that currently need a housing solution. And so a lot of our youth end up putting themselves into unsafe living situations either -- well, I don't need to go into details here, Madam Chair. They end up putting themselves into unsafe situations. These unsafe situations often end up drastically reducing their quality of life, drastically having an impact on their hope, and also have an impact on their ability to access education, employment, and overall health. And so we need a housing strategy that specifically focuses on how we're going to support our youth so that we are not creating cycles of homelessness right off the bat. Thank you.