Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to make a comment because just some of the comments that are being made is -- you know, flowthrough money from the federal government just comes to the government, it's flowed through. Many times, even when I was chief of Salt River First Nation, monies that came to -- that we got from Salt River First Nation flowed through the Government of the Northwest Territories, okay. It has nothing to do with the Government of the Northwest Territories. That's the way the federal government gets the money out the door to go to the First Nation or to the community or -- it's not the fault of anyone in this House. That's just the way it's done.

And if the community at that time is not ready because there's something that happened or -- it could be many things. Like now we're into wildfires, we're into climate change. Like everybody always brings that up all the time, you know. I just -- I don't -- I am used to defending how money flows through governments. But I mean, that's just a standard -- the practice that's been done for years and years. As far as I know, from -- since I've been in leadership and way before that when my husband was mayor of Fort Smith, that's the way that it's done, even for the municipality of Fort Smith. So going on to say that there's something being done wrong when you -- when the money's flowed through here, or making it sound like it's not right, is incorrect information. And I'd like more clarity on that if that's the way it's done. And you know, you can't fault people for -- if someone's not doing the other part on the other side because there might have been change in leadership, there might have been different standards now, there might have been a criteria that they cannot -- they cannot follow, because there's all these criteria that have to come into play before the money is asked for. It doesn't -- you just don't flow the millions through and then it just comes. That's not the way it is. I know that because I -- I've had to do that many times when I've gone to the federal government and the flowthrough money comes through the territorial government. It's all about timing. And most of the time you can extend it and extend it until it's time. So that's just a comment I want to make. I don't expect anybody to answer any questions. But, you know, you can't make it sound like there's something not right here because nobody wants to have anything happen to a community or a municipality or for the capital for that -- for any reason. Thank you, Madam Chair.