Madam Chair, let's hand this to Mr. Courtoreille, please.

Thank you. Minister.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I started to ask some questions about the heritage fund before and then it twigged me to some -- I think I got an explanation for this but I'm still not quite sure about this.

So there's figures shown on the heritage fund, on page 172, then in the -- there's a Roman numeral 14, there's a summary of resource revenue sharing, and the contributions to the heritage fund shown on that page are not the same as what I seem to see on page 172. And they're out by, you know, literally millions of dollars. So what are these two line items actually showing and why are they different? Thanks, Madam Chair.

There are additional information items on page 172 to 175. Are there any questions? Member for Frame Lake.

Thank you, committee. We will now to the Office of the Comptroller General, beginning on page 169 with information items on page 170 and 171. Are there any questions?

Seeing no questions, please turn to page 169.

Finance, Office of the Comptroller General, operations expenditure summary, 2023-2024 Main Estimates, $93,016,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you. Are there any further comments under the Office of the Chief Information Officer? Seeing none, please turn to page 166.

Finance, Office of the Chief Information Officer, operations expenditure summary, 2023-2024 Main Estimates, $21,834,000. Does committee agree?

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. And I'm good with that. And I think too what would kind of be helpful is to kind of -- is to better understand what the steps are in getting there and more from a high level. Like, I'm not asking to create a framework before you create a framework. But understanding, you know, are we -- is this, you know, a three, four, five, ten-year transition for the GNWT? Because my concern is from kind of the human side of it where, you know, how do we track and use and analyze data to be more strategic in our decision-making if all the systems that we need to be able to talk one another aren't able to do that. And so I look forward to continuing this conversation with the Minister. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Kam Lake.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm conscious of time so, look, I can say there is again -- yet, again, there's another framework being developed, Madam Chair. But, again, you need a framework to know within what -- how to -- what the parameters are of what you're trying to achieve. Interoperability, again I completely share this as being a priority. I have drank this Kool-Aid. We can't -- the systems around going to work together if they're not designed to work together and you can't train people to have them working within the same systems if they don't know what they're working within, so it does take a framework to achieve those things. It's -- enterprise architecture is probably is another one I'm going to introduce you to as being the thing that is used to actually create that interoperability. So it's being worked on, and I'd be happy to perhaps provide a bit of a written update to Members rather than trying to do it in limited space of time here. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, you know, something like interoperability framework is not likely something that we're going to see show up in the priorities of the 20th Assembly as a line item so to say, and so I'm wondering what suggestions the Department of Finance would have to the next Assembly coming in to be able to push this item to be able to actually deliver results across the government? Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Kam Lake.