Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I too will be voting in favour of the budget. Recapping, before I continue, I would pay respect to all the previous presentations from my colleagues on this side of the House and the other side of the House. And when I look back at the very beginning of the Minister of Finance's announcement 13 months ago on Restoring Balance, that was the approach that we took, and knowing through experience there's going to be some hard decisions to be made. And the cost overruns have really got to be reflected to the hardships faced by the Sahtu region, particularly during last summer's events. But through collaboration, I was extremely pleased to see the Ministers coming forth with assistance of business relief by the Minister of Finance and the Minister of ITI. And the homes coming to our communities which really says it's a collaborative approach when I look at the community of Deline, and it's the same high cost of operating to my constituency budget, Mr. Chair. It's a fly-in region. I can only seasonally drive to these five communities that I represent. So one can understand sustainability and the challenges on a high cost of living in the Sahtu. But through collaboration with Cabinet, we ease that tension of high cost of living during the no barging season and the evacuation of Fort Good Hope last June. Easing the tension and the stress generated by families forced to leave their community, the Premier travelled to Norman Wells on our request to help comfort the victims of the evacuation caused by the Fort Good Hope fire which came in within a kilometer of the nearest home. So you can feel the stressful tension that was going on during that evacuation. And we were saddened to hear during the evacuation that we lost a chopper pilot defending our community. And we're getting assistance from Cabinet and every Minister throughout the last 15 months but going back into our first Assembly budget, and we got two more to go. But it was accepted by myself, having gone through that, that Restoring Balance is going to be reductions. And analyzing and prioritizing the need for physical assistance is really a chore that I have to pay contribute to Cabinet in doing so.

However moving ahead, as said, I support this budget knowing the fact that reductions, sunsets, forced growth, is a decision made by the stakeholders of this Assembly. So in short, I respect my colleagues' opinions, and I look forward to being resilient and, in particular, implementing what we have. We have a budget, and we set aside a nominal amount that we can feel comfortable in saying this is going to be our surplus moving forward. Hopefully that is not jeopardized by the disasters the NWT has seen in various parts of the NWT over the last several years placing more forced growth decisions on disaster recovery. All said, we still have the avenue of federal engagements to ease that physical cost in operating our 33 communities. So in short, thank you, Mr. Speaker, I will be supporting the budget. Mahsi.