Thank you, Mr. Chair. For next year's budget, the 2021-2022, the original budget when we brought forward the COVID secretariat and the idea for it was $40.4 million. Since that time, we have learned about the actual operations and what it might cost and made some adjustments. The budget has gone down by that $6 million to $34.6 million, which is the number up for discussion here. The Premier also talked about the current year's budget, which is $31.6 million in the current year. The last variance report that we sent to MLAs showed about an $800,000 surplus. We do expect that that variance, that surplus is growing, will grow, mainly due to isolation centres and the isolation centre payment policy that we brought in. The next variance report will be sent out very shortly. Thank you.
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