Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The previous Minister of Finance and the Financial Management Board had incorporated a supplementary reserve for inflationary increases into the fiscal framework of the Government of the NWT, and on September 11th when this was brought forward, it was merely seeking those inflationary increases from a reserve that had been set up for that specific purpose.

Mr. Chairman, there are no inflationary increases allowed in the budget or they were not allowed in the O and M, in this particular area, and in other areas of the budget at the last budget session. So it was merely using up reserves that had been allowed for. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.