Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know in the past year, during our capital session here, we had talked about carry-overs, carry-overs. From past experience there, it has always been the wishes of the private sector to have multi- or carry-over contracts. Now, in this position, I see how we can share the wishes of the private sector and accommodate the carry-over budget to allow the project to go through. Now, it is a matter of the department to design and even give some thought to sectional approaches to the project.

Given that experience recently, I have shared that with the leadership in Tulita, for example, to say to them to look at piecemealing the construction of the Bear River Bridge. This way, it is maximizing on employment training as well as commerce opportunities as well as seeing the project going through and providing multiple years of benefits to the remote community in this case. I am quite satisfied with the discussions we have had in the past and the whole idea that it is not being ruled out on carry-overs.

Carry-overs are actually a good thing. In some parts of our Territory, that is all you are allowed to do is seasonal access, which means carrying over to the next season. In our case, in the Sahtu, in some cases, in some projects there, you are only accessible for the winter months, and the spring thaw comes in. Normally, you know, it revolves around the winter oats season, which usually starts deteriorating to the latter part of March. Avenues to prolong that are looked at, nighttime travel. Those are all factors that I have come to learn in this line of work here that supports the project, as well as employment, as well as prolonging benefits. I share that with the colleagues here today. Thank you