Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the supplementary document has been in the works since, probably, June of this year, as departments came forward for additional funding requirements. As the Member stated, we just received the news ourselves, within the Department of Finance, on Friday. One of the initial things I looked at was this document that is before us now, as to what areas there may be potential for reductions in. The Member listed off a number of areas that are out of our hands because of negotiations being concluded around our employees, as well as the money from the trust fund, and there is another amount in there for transfer of assets to the Tlicho government, I believe.
So that shrinks the amount that we can look at for reductions. There are other pots of funding in this bill, as well, that are flow-through funds from federal programs. Realistically, in looking at this, there are very small amounts of money that we could look at, if absolutely necessary, that we could remove from this document, but we felt we should proceed with it. I intend to speak with my Cabinet colleagues on the issues around the news I announced today, and look at what we have to deal with in the future.
As I stated in my opening comments, we are still in a supplementary reserve, knowing that we had some large items to deal with coming down the pipe. So we are having to review the options in front of us. At that point, we will be ready to come back to Members to give our initial feel of where some areas can be met, or we can do things to mitigate the news that I have announced today. Thank you.