Yeah, thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I guess I just -- I don't understand how this happens where, you know, hiring interns is absolutely excellent; it still costs money. Finance doesn't pay for the entire bill and so there still needs to be a budget allocated to that. And if -- you know, if they're bringing in short-term employees, then those positions still need funding, and that's not reflected here.
In addition to that, if the plan is to use some contract services to get this work done, which I'm fully in support of, the 2021-2022 Main Estimates is the same as the 2022-2023 Main Estimates under contract services. And so this is one of those situations where I guess I'm just not seeing how MACA is setting themselves up to bring in the staff needs in order to do this work that has been committed to. And I know that this work, too, has kind of been passed from multiple different deputy ministers. And so I acknowledge that this deputy minister is receiving this -- this backlog but it still is a commitment of what the Assembly would like to see done.
In addition to that, there's been a lot of talk about the municipal funding formula and reviewing that with NWTAC and so is that work also expected to come out of this division as well? Thank you.