Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of the budget here. We've started off the initiative towards the fiscal sustainability strategy back in February, and now we're at the end, and it never turns out in the interest of what we all expect, but I think we can all realize that there is passion in this Chamber. I feel confident in this leadership in moving on. Yes, we got to give today for tomorrow. And that compromise is what I'm going to be telling the community of Deline and in collaboration and working together and moving forward is exactly what I expect to receive. I've got to attend a graduation in Colville Lake here next week. It's the same day as the Deline school. Deline is larger than Coville, but in the spirit of collaboration, I know I will get support for not attending Deline by the elders there saying thank you for going where the priority is. Colville Lake, they're far behind in their school infrastructure and given the need, I do expect and I know I will get respect on collaboration by the community of Deline in saying thank you for going to Coville rather than we would like you to be here but in standing and supporting our Sahtu communities, I agree with you why you picked Coville over my community. So on that note, I see that philosophy here with this budget. And I see the passion in leadership on moving ahead. People are waiting for this budget. Some people are phoning me from back home and saying when are we going to go to work because we got to depend on the municipal carve out for our communities. Okay, just wait. Now we can all go back to work on summer projects, and I'm glad to hear that the smaller community funds are reinstated. I think we put a lot of smiles on people's faces in the smaller communities, in particular the ones that I represent that are facing hardships. And I look forward to joining them in discussing some of the solutions that the Ministers of Finance, Infrastructure, and ITI has shown their support for designing a relief package for the impacted members due to the cancellation of the barge. So I look forward to working with what we got. And I hope everybody has an enjoyable summer. Mahsi.
Daniel McNeely on Bill 10: Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025, Carried
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Bill 10: Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025, Carried
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