Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I appreciate the Member's comments for sure. I can reflect on some recent decisions that were made that came out that were not -- well, that were fully baked, we will call them. And so it's -- you know, it's definitely one where finding that sweet spot of how people want to see ideas come out of the oven is definitely one that depends who you're chatting with. And so I appreciate the Member's support on this and look forward to being able to update him on what those timelines look like once we've had the opportunity to make sure that we're going about this in the right way to ensure that there is as little disruption to residents of the territory as possible. That's very important for both streams that we are combining together. I know that there's also been a lot of talk about this on the floor of the House, not only in this Assembly but also in previous Assemblies as well. And I guess this is one of the nice things, is this is one that I asked for last term and now we get -- now I get to do it. So here we are.

In regards to arts funding, Mr. Chair, we are currently second in Canada. And so while it's not first place, you know, we're a strong second as far as per capita spending in that regard. And so I, too, share the Member's excitement about where arts will go within ITI. I think one of the things that's really neat is there's kind of now going to be this suite of funding that kind of leads people through a journey from potentially being an art for art site type subscriber to developing it into a starting business and then potentially going from there. There is also that very natural and beautiful connection with art tourism as well, which the Member brought up, and which I can also say that in the opportunity I've had to travel to different communities in the South Slave, especially recently, art tourism came up multiple times, and the excitement around the potential of art tourism and the economic driver that that is was quite exciting and quite nice. And so the ability not only to connect people with resources to build business but also to connect people with other sources of funding, not only within the GNWT but also through those federal and third party partnerships that I know, that ITI definitely is in tune to and very excited to use in order to support the growth of arts in the territory. Thank you.