Thank you, Mr. Chair. To give Members some substantiation for what I'm looking to do here, I'll just give my substantiation for each individual project I'm looking to remove from the budget.

First is the Fort Simpson gatehouse residence. In the substantiation, they note -- you know, as the Minister shared with us, this is a site where the current park operator maintains a presence using an RV and this one, I just feel like adding new infrastructure to our parks right now, in a time when we are trying to conserve costs, is just not justifiable. I think that the way the park is being managed right now is reasonable, and so I would like to remove that line item.

The next one is the Blackstone Park fixed roof structure. The bottom line here is I don't believe this additional structure is a need-to-have and would prefer that this kind of money be going towards housing maintenance or construction. So I am suggesting that we cut that one knowing that we are not recovering or costs from these facilities. We can't keep adding to the number of facilities that we have to build and maintain.

The third item -- line item that I'm looking to remove with this motion is the Cameron Crossing Park. With this one, I simply don't agree with the substantiation for the park and, again, note that the cost of building and maintaining these facilities is growing and the more that we continue to grow these costs for construction, for maintenance, the more money that we have to pour into O and M, this is the slow growth, the death by a thousand cuts, that is preventing us from being able to afford to run the territory. And so I think we need to scrutinize these projects carefully and we have to look at what we can and can't build. I see this one, again, it's a project that would be a nice-to-have, but we are not in a government right now that is able to be looking at nice-to-haves. And so I'm very happy with the parks infrastructure that we have. I enjoy it myself almost every year. I've been to many of the parks in the NWT and absolutely love them, but I just don't think that we are in a time right now where we should be growing our parks infrastructure. So with that, Mr. Speaker -- or sorry, Mr. Chair, I have brought forward a couple of cuts where I'm looking at items where we're building new. Anything related to asset management I support, and I think we do need to be maintaining the assets that we've got, but when we're talking about questions about growing our assets, that's a different conversation. And I think -- you know, I've been very clear in some of my statements that I want to be focusing on our priorities. Our priorities include housing. And it would be my intention that this money be put, if possible, by Cabinet into Housing NWT's capital budget. Thank you, Mr. Chair.