Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The $20 million forecast is yet to be discussed in the future budget. I will be going to Members and as the Member for Hay River South had asked earlier about potential options or suggestions, we are looking for suggestions to go forward. We have to look at all avenues that we spend our money on, all programs and services delivered by our
government that we have flexibility in. We are going to have to look at those. Core programs and services are going to have to be maintained because some of those are required. They are statutory obligations that we have to meet minimum standards. Those things we are going to do.
There are a lot of programs we do run that are of our own development or are enhanced from the territorial level that we are going to have to look at. We will be coming back to Members with some of those suggestions. Mr. Hawkins has mentioned a number of potential options out there and all those things can be looked at. If this House is willing, that direction is where we go. Those are options on the table. We are going to have to look at every envelope we have to find the savings.
The direction given to departments for travel they were to reduce travel by 25 percent. So departments went back, looked internally and found 25 percent of their travel. Some departments did not take it purely out of travel, but they found some of that money because their budgets are tight in a possible area of funding, either a vacant position or something to try to find that money. They went back and found what would be equivalent to 25 percent of their travel budget. That's travel that's discretionary; that's the key component of that. Thank you.