Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I'm so happy that the Member from Monfwi brought this up. This is certainly very top of mind. I know that a lot of us in this House have had an opportunity to have really incredible relationships with a lot of the interpreters in this House. And, you know, they do far more than interpret for us. They definitely also take care of our hearts on a daily basis. And so I know that a lot of us get some pretty good hugs coming into this room and a good reset from a lot of the people who, you know, surround us and do such a good job of reminding us why we're here on a daily basis. And so I really appreciate the Member bringing that up.

In addition to -- and sorry, let me take a step back. So those relationships and the succession planning that needs to happen for the interpreters in this building is something that is incredibly important to both the Speaker and I, and so we have been sitting down and having lunches every session when we're here in the House with myself and the Speaker and both of our staff, so clerk's office staff and then also education, culture and employment staff, because we want to work with the interpreters in this building to find out, first of all, what are their suggestions because, really, they are such -- they're not just language champions. They're language experts. And so we have so much to learn from them in order to learn how we can put together a program that really fuels language in this building. But it's not just about what happens in this building as well. It's about what happens outside this building and really creating language communities right across the territory.

And so last week, I also had the opportunity to sit down with our official languages board and made a commitment to them that, absolutely, I want for all of us at the end of our time together -- because they're on terms as well. But we're all here because we want to see good work done and so it takes us working together in order to make sure that we are doing meaningful work and at the end of the day have something to show for it.

And so all that to say there, absolutely as far as succession planning, there are good conversations happening in terms of a deliverable, like a course at Aurora College. We now have Dr. Angela James as the president of Aurora College. She comes from the Indigenous languages secretariat. So me saying that she definitely has a very personal interest in the success of language in the territory, I don't think I'm speaking out of turn. And so where we're at right now is in order -- so Aurora College does have an intent to have -- take up a space within language development in the Northwest Territories, and I have made the commitment that when they have that program ready, to bring it forward to the financial management board for the funding that we removed from this budget. But I couldn't keep hanging on to funding that we weren't using for the purposes that we committed to this House for using, so I in good -- in -- you know, in respect of the processes that we have here in the House, let go of that funding so we could put it to something that was actually appropriated by this House. But absolutely, I continue to have meetings with Aurora College. Just had one yesterday. Indigenous languages did come up as well. Thank you.