Finance committee  We were very pleased when the building was constructed in Iqaluit, the capital city of Nunavut. Our territory is the least developed, and it was great that the federal government put the headquarters for the north in Iqaluit, in Nunavut. Of course, there are still growing pains.

Finance committee  Absolutely. We always need more. As you know, one of the things we're talking about is devolution. We want to ensure we have a mechanism there to actually generate our own revenue, so we have our own priorities built, especially when it comes to infrastructure. Again it's somet

Finance committee  Not at this time. As you know, the development is happening on Inuit-owned lands, when it comes to mineral development, and as a territorial government we do not collect royalties on that, except personal taxes. Going to crown lands, there's no real development taking place for

Finance committee  Absolutely. There are many priorities we have in Nunavut and, again, when it comes to devolution, in the past we've always been an hour away from signing that AIP, agreement in principle, but that's several years away yet. At the end of our devolution negotiations, I do want to

Finance committee  Absolutely, we do have a young population. It's throughout our whole territory, in our bigger communities, our medium-sized communities, and in our small communities. One of the challenges that we face is, of course, the cost of providing services for them. Again, providing healt

Finance committee  Absolutely. Again, we're talking about setting up a college or university in our territory. It will give more vision for our young people to look forward to, because at this point there's no university. We do have Nunavut Arctic College, which helps us out in big ways, but at the

Finance committee  It's very difficult when we talk about banks and credit unions for our smaller communities. Most of our folks are on Internet banking, and at the same time we see some difficulties in our small communities where employed people want to set up a mortgage to build their own homes a

Finance committee  No. It's a budding industry.

Finance committee  Absolutely, and thank you for that question. When we talk about our inefficient power generating plants in Nunavut, these are very old. When you have engines burning only 30% to 50% of their fuel, and the rest going out to exhaust, that is a major problem. When we talk about put

Finance committee  Absolutely. That's the number we were desperately short of, approximately 3,000 units.

Finance committee  Absolutely, the cheapest form of building public units is either multiplexes, five-plexes, 10-plexes, or even higher. Then of course land is always a high cost.

Finance committee  Yes, the municipality.

Finance committee  We let procurement through our housing corporation do that. Then of course, one of the highest costs is bringing up the construction material.

Finance committee  Thank you. I'll have my Minister of Community and Government Services respond to that.

Finance committee  You're absolutely right. During the last fiscal year, we had budgeted over $6 million specifically for mental health. We overspent our budget by over $8 million, and that's just scratching the surface. As you know, I declared suicide a crisis a few years ago. We set up a secreta