Thank you, Mr. Chair. I won't repeat the questions on the economic planning. I pretty much just agree with what the Member for Great Slave just asked about and her comments on it. But moving on under this department, the business plan, again, page 154, the support for arts. So I actually support the mandate commitment, I do appreciate seeing continued support NWT Arts and arts organizations. I won't read out the whole thing. But noting that increased number of funded artists and arts organizations funding, just to that point. I've spoken about this a couple times over budget deliberations but just to note that, you know, just increasing the number of individuals receiving funding does not necessarily speak to kind of the health of the industry and can sometimes not necessarily work towards building the health of the industry as much as core funding for organizations. So I just wanted to hear -- I just kind of -- I guess I mostly just want to get that comment on the table and would suggest that if we could get targets identified that speak more to kind of growth in the industry overall and taking action which will include -- which will lead to that as opposed to simply just, you know, targeting that we're just going to fund more people. If the Minister could just kind of comment on that a little bit.
Julian Morse on Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
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Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
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