Thank you, Mr. Chair. I mean, I -- and I appreciate the comment again. We certainly don't want to see a flood impact that's the size of $100 million as we did this year. Certainly I mentioned the year before, while devastating in the Deh Cho region and the Nahendeh region, the costs of that flood in 2021 were nowhere near what this one was. So there's by no means any certainty that we're going to be year over year seeing $100 million for what appear to be climate change impacts. That said, I take the point it is -- that, you know, there may need to be some looking at where this -- what kind of reserve is required. This particular year, this -- it was part of the fiscal strategy early days of how we might mitigate and how we might plan to have reserves and what that would like like as the overall fiscal strategy for four years. Things, obviously, change a lot over the course of four years notwithstanding a pandemic. So, again, point well taken and probably well made given that we are kind of going into our last main estimates but then planning does begin almost immediately thereafter for what the government would look like in the future. So, you know, point taken and thoughts on that can begin to crystallize. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Caroline Wawzonek on Committee Motion 331-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 747-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2022-2023, Carried
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