Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'd like to follow up a little on my colleague from Range Lake's comments around the funding.
First of all, I mean, you know, we've moved the needle a little on this for sure in the past few months. I keep in regular contact with the Children's First Society in Inuvik, and I know the Minister's been working hard with the territorial society as well and we have moved the needle a little up there, and it looks like they're not in the dire situation they were in and that it seems like their operation is now moving forward, which is great. And the $10 million is great. But, we are still in trouble. And I know the Minister knows that as well. I appreciate that the number of vacancy -- the number of spaces required is not tracked or waiting lists or whatever. But anecdotically, we know that we're in trouble in that we know, for example, Children's First Society has told me that if they had another building the same size they have now, they would fill it. You know, granted they could find professionals to work in there, but. So we know there's certainly a huge need in my community. We've gotten emails, and I know the Minister's gotten them as well, from medical professionals in my community saying, we're going to have to leave because we just can't find child care. And it's unfortunate because they enjoy working there and enjoy living there but the bottom line is, unless they get some help with, you know, with daycare, they're not going to be able to stay which is very, very troubling.
So I guess, you know, my question is, yes, we've got it here but what I'd like to ask the Minister -- and I know MLA Testart had said basically the same thing, what do you need? Because we know we have a problem. If it's a question of we need to put more funding into this, what do you need? And I'm sure the department has done some work on that, you know, in order. Because if we don't provide suitable daycare, we are going to lose, again, as I spoke about in many Member statements, we're going to lose talent, or we've lost talent. People are leaving. Doctors, teachers. And if they can't get suitable child care, they can't come here. And it's unfortunate. So I guess, yeah, my first question is what do you need? What would be your ask? Thank you.