Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I absolutely agree with the Member that child care is very important. You know, having been a self-employed individual when I had my three children at home, if I did not go to work there was -- there was no sick days. There's no sick days when you're self-employed so I absolutely understand that.

As far as what is going on in the territory right now in order to create spaces, when we talk about policy change and policy evolution, one of the things that happened in the territory for the first time ever is if you live in public housing and you want to open a day home tomorrow, that will not be an impediment. So right now, we have 14 communities in the Northwest Territories that do not have any child care facilities, any licensed child care facilities. People in public housing can open a day home, and ECE will work with them to do that. We have early learning and child care coordinators who do that fine work and work very hard to try to make sure that people are supported to open day homes. And so that is something that can happen right now in the territory. Just last month, we had a visit from a federal minister to help make an announcement of $10.6 million over the next few years in order to inject infrastructure funding in our early learning and child care facilities in the Northwest Territories. So whether that is renovating a space to make it conducive to support daycare spaces in a community or in a town, that funding is there. It is also available for new builds. And so what we're doing right now is working with child care providers, working with Indigenous governments, working with education bodies, in order to determine how those dollars are going to start flowing out of the GNWT and into communities so that we can start working on these 75 spaces as quickly as possible. And anecdotically, you know, I know that, for example the community of Fort Smith, very, very open and honest, very beautiful facility they have and that they're operating out of right now. They could fill another facility tomorrow. Inuvik, you've spoken about, same situation. Yellowknife, same situation. Norman Wells, ready to go with a child care facility. So the need absolutely is there. The department is, you know, working as hard as it can to make sure that we are advocating at a federal level for additional funding and making sure that the feds also understand where we are at financially. And I know that we're not the only jurisdiction having that conversation. These agreements were put in place before record inflation, and that message is definitely being shared with the federal government as well. But we are working as hard as we can with what we have and ensuring that we are being as supportive as possible to Northerners who want to set up day homes because we absolutely value them, and we rely on the good work that they do.