Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, one of the sources of, you know, concern that's been raised has actually been colleagues in the federal government who have said, you know, why aren't you spending more? What are you spending? You know, and they want to have accountability for the dollars that they are committing to the Northwest Territories. So if there are projects that are delayed or stalled, again for a variety of reasons, but it may well -- but for whatever reason it may be that attaches to any particular project, you know, they would rather know that when we have a properly sized budget that they can then be held accountability to deliver upon and be more focused on the reasons that a project might get held back. So it's not to say that some of these projects won't still face some sort of delay but, you know, we're not looking at a monster-sized envelope that is more likely to see that.
Federal departments have been consulted, certainly a lot of officials-level conversations have been had. I know myself and Minister Archie have had conversations when the federal Minister of Infrastructure was here. And the messaging actually was, you know, figure out what you can do and to focus on that. So I actually think this will be a positive signal to them. Thank you.