Mr. Speaker, this has the ring of a Minister's statement. There's so much that really needs to be said in this space. The territory has a population that is not reflected in the public service right now and arguably never has been, so we need to get to a place where that changes. I can only imagine that that impedes people's morale. That would make certainly sense to me if you don't feel -- see yourself reflected around you or in the services that you are receiving as a resident. So I want to reflect that first as just understanding the gravity and importance of this.

It also -- if we can get to a place of increasing meaningfully the diversity in the public service with the diversity that's present in this territory, that makes for better workplaces. It in and of itself improves culture.

So those are a lot of things without being a concrete answer, Mr. Speaker, and I'm mindful of the time given the complexity of what's being asked. We do now have online or published the reporting back in on the targeting in the Indigenous Recruitment and Retention Framework, which is really a very targeted document that's meant to change where we're at, to change who's employed, to really focus very specifically by department, by division, and by level who's employed. So I would ask folks to take a look at them. You know, it's going to take some time to turn those numbers around but we aren't going to do it if we aren't being held to account, so I want to be -- I want folks to go look at those numbers and to see where we're at and to raise those questions because that will hopefully show that we're trying to be responsive and trying to be honest with the problem that we have in front of us. Thank you.