Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I see here as capital estimates, it would be nice that, you know -- to see Tlicho region in this as well because there's North Slave region at 22 percent. I would like to know how much money is going to be spent in Tlicho region. It doesn't have anything like that here. I see the roads. It's $94 million. And I'm grateful, thankful that, you know, Frank Channel Bridge is on there. But Frank Channel Bridge is a benefit for the Northwest Territories.

And I'm kind of a little bit disappointed because for the school, it says $3 million. Like, we have a lot of schools in the Northwest Territories that needs upgrade. Some of our schools are over 50 years old. Even the Sahtu. In Tlicho, you know, like, that's what we keep saying that we need a new school. And I know there is a study, and the Minister has said that before because it is in the -- they're doing their own little studies. And, like, it's -- I know it's going to get -- you know, it's -- we're going to get our new school eventually, I know that. But it's just that why $3 million? I mean, that's, like -- and for a few upgrades. And a lot of school needs some minor and major repair. And this budget is disappointing. Yes, we do have -- we have a housing crisis. We have a lot of homeless people. And more should have been given over there because even in my region, we have a lot of people on the waitlist for family units, and we don't have that. And we have -- we have a warming shelter. We have a lot of homeless people. And if some of those people cannot be accommodated in Tlicho region, what do they do? They come to Yellowknife and they become Yellowknife problems, and we don't want that. We would like to take care of our own people back home, but we don't have a lot of housing. We do have housing issues. We have housing crisis. A lot of social problems. A lot of addiction issues, mental health. And we do need more of those programs and services, and it's not reflected in this budget. There's not much.

And we have a lot of aging infrastructure too as well. We have over 50-year-old water pipe system in Edzo that needs a major repair, that needs to be replaced. We have a lot of school that needs, you know, replacement or a lot of school repair. And also a lot of our government building needs to be replaced as well. And it's disappointing to see this budget the way that it is -- it is written, and with the North Slave region, 22 percent. I would like to see Tlicho region in there so that way we will have a good estimate of how much money is going being spent in Tlicho region because there's four communities that I represent, and there is over 2,000 people that I do represent as well. Thank you.