Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First off, I'm going to thank and acknowledge the Minister from -- or sorry, the Member -- maybe one day -- but certainly the Member for Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh for seconding the motion. He raises some really good concerns, and I fully support the issues he brings, which is many of these small communities are so underresourced and they're piled on with more challenges, you know, they just have nowhere to go and they're challenged all the way around to find ways to move dollars around just to get the job done and, yet, here they are they're often struggling and one could say underwater, even in droughts, because of responsibilities.

Mr. Speaker, the intent of the motion is trying to help coordinate and support all our communities to make sure they're safe, they have plans. And with that, I'll leave it as the motion has already spoken for itself and my colleagues have offered some valuable input, and I am grateful for their time on this initiative. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.