Thank you, Madam Chair, for indulging a second round. And I just wanted to quickly kind of provide my closing comments here. So just a couple more points.

I mean, as I spoke to earlier, I appreciated Cabinet kind of listening to our comments, and I certainly saw mine reflected in the updated mandate document, so I appreciate them listening. And I wanted to highlight just a few things.

One is the statement on page 2 about strengthening collaborations between departments. It goes on to talk about fostering a sense of purpose and well-being and empowering, performance, and excellence and innovation in our staff. There's another bullet point, on page 3, empowering the public service by ensuring they are provided the flexibility to deliver programs and honouring the GNWT's commitments to openness, transparency, and accountability. So those statements, I just wanted to highlight those because I wanted to note that some of those things, I think, some people would say are a pretty monumental shift in how the GNWT does business. And that is something that I was advocating for. I noted in my comments on the mandate that I wanted to see us speak to -- let's see here.

I was talking about things like implementing results-based management systems, program measure measurement, a reference to changing management structure and practice to better facilitate employee empowerment and engagement. So I was hoping to see specifics like that. And also a commitment to improving workplace morale and employee satisfaction. I would note, unfortunately, that workplace morale and employee satisfaction has been noted to be fairly low in recent surveys of staff. So I just wanted to point out these statements and say that they're very nice to see and hear, and it remains to be seen that we are going to remain committed to these and ensure that we actually implement them with policies, with changes to how things are down, with shifts in the way management is done at the GNWT. And I think those, as I said, would be quite monumental shifts, and I think they'd be very appreciated by a lot of people, including myself, because I think these shifts are one of the keys to ensuring that these mandate commitments actually get implemented.

So I'm just going to share some closing comments that I shared with Cabinet when we were in caucus. I wanted to make the comments publicly also.

Let's be bold. Let's take risks. I think we all know that we're facing major challenges during the term of this Assembly and that status quo is not acceptable, nor will it get us where we need to go. And so I want to encourage Cabinet to take those risks. You've spoken to it in the mandate, and I want to see you do it on the ground.

With regard to the relationship between Regular Members and Cabinet, I think that we often see the differences between our two sides, but the distinction is much less significant for the public who put us in here. I think people judge our success as an Assembly based on the successes and operations of the government. So your success is our success. And I want us to be working together, like you've said, to achieve that.

I also want to speak to kind of just the specific work of MLAs. I want as much as possible our committee projects to align with the mandate and help investigate and make recommendations as to how we can improve our ability to achieve it. So that's my commitment back to Cabinet, is that when working on the Regular MLA side, we'll be scoping out our projects and doing projects that relate to either mandate or business plan items, things that either we have expertise in or we think need an extra lens on to ensure that we are actually making good on some of these commitments, because this is a very ambitious list of tasks and we have a very short period of time to achieve them.

What I want to see from Cabinet is strong leadership to ensure that the bureaucracy is implementing what we're talking about in this room on the ground, particularly with regards to working collaboratively, helping people, ensuring that people perceive the change we're talking about here in their communities and in their interactions with the government.

So that's pretty much -- that's pretty much it from me is -- and when I speak to strong leadership, what I mean is are we seeing change that we're talking about here actually implemented. And so some of you will notice that I haven't been providing questions ahead of time as much as I was in the first session, and that's -- I was saying to one of the Ministers earlier that one of the reasons for that is I want to know what the Ministers are bringing to the table in terms of leadership to these departments. And so I do want to hear the Minister's voice, not just the department's voice when we're asking questions. And so having taken five minutes already, I think I'll leave my comments at that. Thank you, Madam Chair.