Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, when Premier made his speech at the beginning, you know, balance the budget and to build good working relationship with Indigenous government, settling outstanding land claims, etcetera, I liked that. You know, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that, you know, was pleased with that statement. There's a lot of other First Nations that didn't settle their land claims were also pleased as well, you know. So which is a good start. I like that. You know, but this mandate here, there's nine pages, and they are right, it is very vague. You know, here, access to health care, deliver equitable access to sustainable primary care in all NWT communities, not in all -- you know, like, I mean, there are going to be some communities -- like, how would you accommodate for a community like Wekweeti, you know? So not every one of them. It's -- there's not going -- we're not going to have this equitable access, you know. So it's just that how they're going to do this is one of the things that kind of missing in the mandate. But I know it's in the business plan, but it's very long. And, you know, something like this, where the mandate, like, nine pages, but it's just that it would have been nice if -- you know, if it was more explanation and details of how they're going to do it. So I have no issues, it's just that it's -- I know this turnaround, this government is doing something different, which we didn't have this mandate, we didn't have this business plan, but we had the main estimate. So main estimate, that's where we ask all those questions. But I guess now that, you know, tomorrow it's -- tomorrow we're going to be discussing that tomorrow and we'll look into it more.

But even with the housing, you know, like, I mean, to -- to end homelessness, especially in small communities -- in larger centre, yes, there's -- more of our people are moving to larger centre because to have a better life. We can have that in small communities if we were -- if we had access to more program and services if we had more housing, you know, because there's not too many people in the small communities where homelessness should not be an issue. And it doesn't say that in here too, you know, that -- they talk about the homelessness, but it's mostly in regional centre, not in small communities. So I do have issues with that.

And mental health services, you know, like, we do have lots of issues there.

And public safety, it talked about here, law enforcement, you know. In small communities, like Gameti, they don't have RCMP. They've been asking for -- to ensure public safety, they do need an RCMP or law enforcement, any kind of -- or law enforcement, some form of law enforcement in that community, and Wekweeti too as well. It's not just them, but there are other communities that are lacking that services. So it would have been nice how, you know, like, they're going to be focusing on crime prevention.

In small communities, there's lots of issues. There's lots of -- we lack a lot of recreation activities. There's not much to do for our young people. So all they do is just -- you know, the only activities that most of these community have is the school activities. There's nothing outside of school in some of the communities. So we do need more, and it would have been nice if that was identified in here too as well, you know, because -- and lately, the crime has been happening due to drug related. So it's just that -- I do like what I see here, but it's just that it would have been nice if it was explained more in detail.

I don't want to talk down the clock, but I think I'm sure there are other Members here that want to talk as well. But I do like what the Premier -- you know, the Premier said in his statement before that, you know, Indigenous government, Indigenous people, having good relation -- good working relationship with them is more important for us, especially from the small communities. So that's all I wanted to say. Thank you.