What is your current message to the federal government when it comes to Jordan's principle and the impact those changes are having on the education system?

The impacts on the education system have been dire to go from having, you know.

an investment in a system of $60 million and literally overnight, it seeming like that was just turned off without the opportunity to, to adjust our, our sales as a, as a territory.

And also in a lot of the cases with Jordan's principle as a government, we didn't have a direct lens into how different education bodies were using the funding or different communities were using the funding because it's an agreement directly between the Either the education body, how it was in the past, or the individual receiving the funding and the federal government directly.

The GNWT was not involved in that.

And so we don't work in a system that can turn on a dime.

And so it's been more than concerning.

Mm-hmm.

How do you feel that process has gone? And I guess what has been the change on the ground locally?

Well, the, I guess, biggest change as far as the site goes is refilling of the pits, which is a pretty drastic change in the topography and just look visually of the area up around Rio Tinto's diavec.

But I want to talk first and foremost about just that same thread as our last conversation, which is relationships.

And the relationship, it doesn't end when a project stops producing revenue for a major company.

That relationship continues and that relationship with DIAVEC and the people of the Northwest Territories is still continuing on today.

That relationship needs to continue on during the remediation period.

It's so important because making sure that mines are closed strategically and properly is so important, not just for that individual project, but also the future of an entire sector.

What are you seeing at the moment?

Is there enough local workforce to be able to work on these new projects and new mines? And if they've come from the diamond background, do they have the skills necessary to work in a critical metals mine? Is the skill set similar enough to get by, or are you needing more retraining?

So it's a whole spectrum.

So absolutely, some people will be ready to go from one project to the next.

They will have skill sets and training that can easily be imported and translate well from one industry to another.

Certainly, though, there is definitely going to be a need for retraining.

And there's also going to be needs for new training.

Because A lot of our diamond mines were central to the North Slave region.

Most of your future workforce are right now in elementary and high school, and you mentioned being responsible for that, but what kind of programs do you have at these school levels that are going to encourage these students to live and work and stay in the Northwest Territories? Because I suspect their parents would be thrilled if their kids could experience opportunities and not have to go far, far away from home in order to, to have an opportunity to thrive.