Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to everybody who presented today. They were very interesting presentations and I know everybody had short notice. I want to welcome the NWT Association of Communities. You also had short notice and travelled quite a ways to be here. You brought up very interesting challenges we have in the north. If we could find the resources and convince committee to put this as part of the recommendations, we'd be moving a little bit closer to the Canadian standard.
We all know that one of the biggest challenges for communities, organizations and businesses in the Northwest Territories is that the programs need to be sizable enough to address the northern infrastructure and services gaps, and also accessible and flexible. Could you talk a little bit on the importance of designing federal programs to reflect the realities in the north?