Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. I support this motion. And just a little bit more background, committee did receive a presentation from the Northwest Territories Association of Communities, and in their written submission and in the discussion that was had with the representatives, this particular ask is based on what actually happens in the Yukon. That's how they calculated what they would like to receive to help offset and mitigate the impacts of the carbon tax. And I'm not going to attempt to explain what kind of impacts they anticipate. I think my colleague from Kam Lake did an excellent job on that. But that's what the ask is. And, you know, a bit of a surprise here today to hear the Minister of Finance say that Cabinet has reconsidered this and is willing to look at a 10 percent, I guess, use of residual funds from the carbon tax and provide that to community governments. I think I'd rather kind of see a percentage of the total rather than the residual amount.
And I guess the other area that's uncertain for me in what the Minister has offered is how that's going to be done. You know, I guess the mechanism's going to be a regulation because Cabinet, if Bill 60 does pass, has total discretion about rebates. They can -- the Minister might call it flexibility; I call it total discretion. And I think what we have here is a crisis in trust, quite frankly, but. So I presume that this would then be done through a regulation, and that regulation might be good from this Cabinet but what happens when the next Cabinet comes in? They could change it. That's why, Madam Chair, I preferred a legislated approach that -- where we could probably build in some flexibility, but a legislated approach, then you have to come back to the House if you're going to start to change that in significant substantive ways, take away the money that should go to communities. I'm sorry to say, Madam Chair, for me this is a crisis of trust. And from what I've seen with how that discretion was exercised from the first carbon tax bill to now, I'm not prepared to go there. So I think we still need a plan B, and that will be the next recommendation, Madam Chair. Thank you.