Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, as a business owner who has actually dabbled in the SEED program, I certainly have my own ideas of how to improve the program. The program itself is not meant to be something that people apply for every year. It is meant to be a piece that really propels businesses to the next level. There are Northerners who have used SEED program in order to write business plans and get support in that sense to ensure that they are putting together a business idea and the supports that go along with it that make a robust and self-reliant business plan at the end of the day. If people are looking for kind of the next stage of game changer investment in their businesses, there are additional programs that the Government of the Northwest Territories does have to support that, whether that's through Community Futures or through Prosper NWT, there are kind of a spectrum. But one of the things that this SEED review really is lending to is to ensure that we are affording Northerners access to that spectrum of support services and investments into business growth in the territory. And one of the best ways, really, to ensure that our local businesses are supported is to ensure that we are supporting local as residents and to ensure that we are all contributing to growing our economy at the end of the day because a healthy economy supports a healthy economy. So thank you for the Member's comments, and I certainly take them to heart.
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