Thank you, Madam Chair. So I believe the MLA's referring to our contracting work related to the flood. So just -- well, I'll back up.
Just generally as a department, we follow procurement rules. You know, go out to RFP or use a sole source mechanism. For the vast majority of departmental work, we go out to RFP but with -- when we're moving into the recovery phase for a disaster, as we did in 2021 and 2022, we do procure external assistance through the sole source mechanism because of the urgent nature of the work, for example, to get construction companies in to do emergency abatements, so things like ripping out the drywall, removing wet insulation. We want to get in there sooner rather than later. And so we do sole sources on an emergency basis. And we report on all of our contracting, whether it's through RFP or sole source, through the GNWT public registry. Thank you.