Yes, thanks, Madam Chair. Yes, I have some questions about what's in here and also something that's not in here.
So I'd like to start by acknowledging that the Minister has carried through with her commitments, as I fully expected, in terms of some increased spending that we had negotiated as part of the budget discussions earlier this year. There is extra money in here for housing, $4 million; $2.2 million for shelter funding; an increase of half a million dollars for heritage centres; there's some reductions in contracted services, but the area that's not covered in the supplementary appropriation is the increased revenues from a tobacco tax increase.
So can the Minister tell us why that's not included in the supplementary appropriation. I'll start with that. Thanks, Madam Chair.