Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do just to let the House know the Member was kind enough to share the question just before we sat down and so I've been writing a book. And the first question though is what are we doing to help departments.

The first step within that is that Ministers sit their departments, their deputy ministers and their management team, and define what the initiatives, the mandates are and the needs of the department, and they define what the budget that they will need to do.

As well, while that's going on, we also have contacts close to Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, that we work with to develop federal engagement. Their responsibility is actually, because they're on the ground, to talk with federal Ministers, officials, get the feelers out there, find out what the priorities are going to be, etcetera, for the new government because we need to line up our asks of course.

After that, during the same time, we plan our asks across the departments. We've learned over the years, longer than this Assembly, that you can go into the federal government and have a hundred asks, but there's only so much money that they as well have, just like us. And so it's way more strategic to figure out what our asks are going to be and hit from all sides.

So not all departments might get funded every single year but there's a strategy so that we spread it out.

And then EIA and Finance also looks at all the asks and then we are there to assist the departments as needed, to coordinate the asks, to make sure they stay on the federal engagement, to make sure that our asks are coordinating with the priorities.

And then finally what we do is all the departments, once we define that, every time I meet with the Prime Minister or the Finance Minister, Northern Affairs that I meet with, we consolidate all our asks and I carry those into my opening comments every time when I talk to Ministers. So that basically is how we support departments to make sure their needs are met. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.