Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I too wanted to speak to this recommendation. I feel strongly that Northerners are currently in a kind of northern double jeopardy where right now Northerners are being -- they're seeing increases to their power rates through NTPC for using archaic energy infrastructure and then on the flip side they're going taxed through the carbon tax for using that infrastructure and not using alternatives but these alternatives don't exist to Northerners. And so if we're going to turn around and kind of, so to speak, slap Northerners on the wrist for not using these alternatives, then we need to make sure that these alternatives are available and that they're affordable. And this speaks not only to the NWT being able to achieve its greenhouse gas goals but also to the entire country being able to achieve its goals in partnership with all of its jurisdictions.

I also want to say here, Madam Chair, that increasing the cost of living in the Northwest Territories is not only a concern about cost of living; it also has huge impacts on whether or not people are going to stay in the Northwest Territories and, in turn, that has impacts on Arctic sovereignty, Arctic security, and also on reconciliation. So I support this recommendation. Thank you, Madam Chair.