Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to all the witnesses.
I have two remarks on the territories. First, I had the opportunity to live there and work as a registered nurse in Arviat and then Cambridge Bay and have some great memories and appreciation for the challenges. My memories of being out on the land: hunting was extraordinary. I'm also from the Kenora riding, and we share a significant portion of the Hudson Bay coastline with some parts of your territory, and also have an appreciation for vast territory that has some various needs. Those needs, and the ones I want to review here within this five minutes, are as follows. When I was elected, we identified that infrastructure, economic diversification, and education and training were probably the three places where we really needed to drill down and explore.
Like your territories, we have some small towns and cities with certain degrees of better infrastructure and access to training, and then the more remote communities of course are without some of those. We tend to specialize in certain things. Again to the territories' credit, in areas of nursing you were right out there on the cutting edge of developing advance practice nursing for understanding and appreciating what challenges the more remote communities faced. So I want to review some of these areas here.
With respect to infrastructure, I know you talked broadly about some of the key territorial infrastructure needs. Rosemary, could you comment on the absolute key infrastructure projects in the remote community? What are the top three or four that must be done to support a broad economic diversification strategy that includes a number of the items that were identified here and also contemplates health? What are some of the key infrastructures?