Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't have the 2021 Main Estimates in front of me. What I can say is that the Income Assistance numbers do vary quite a bit from year to year. I do have five-year averages in front of me, and there is quite a bit of difference in variance year over year. There is an effort obviously made to review that and to make projections based on the best guess possible, but there is quite a bit of variance. As gas prices utilities go up, so do costs. As the economy changes, so do demands. I certainly cannot sit here and promise there won't be another supplementary appropriation sought for Income Assistance only, but if the Member wants to see the variance year over year, I certainly can provide that. That might be in terms of just demonstrating the wide variety that happens year over year and why we do wind up coming back on a supplementary appropriation specific to Income Assistance.
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