Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, I think having some public reporting on this is just a small part. We're being sued for $107 million. I have absolutely no idea. There is no public information about who or why that is. If we all of a sudden have $107 million show up in our budget, none of us are going to be happy. I suspect that a lot of this is from P3 legacy projects and contract disputes. I know there's some various class actions out there. I'm guessing really, based on news headlines, as to why we might all of a sudden owe $107 million.
Furthermore, I think the GNWT has absolutely refused to ever engage in any sort of transparency about settling litigation. I think they are overusing NDAs. I think in settlement agreements, they are refusing to disclose them. And it's not until maybe sometimes it's reported in either the public accounts or a budget that we catch that oh, we paid millions of dollars; oh, that we messed up a construction project and we had to settle for millions of dollars.
All of the information I have about this is currently found in the news, and none of it is available public anywhere. I believe our government needs to look at this and needs to take a transparent approach to when we settle litigation, why did it occur and publicly report on it. I think they are hiding behind it's before the courts or some fear of the rules, which is unrealistic and not being done in other jurisdictions. Thank you, Madam Chair.