Thank you. And yes, I know my last answer might not have been perhaps as serious as the Member was looking for. But that's what we are doing. We looked at every benefit that we wanted to offer and we costed those out based on the historical realities. We looked -- we removed a number of barriers as well. And so, you know, income assistance clients won't be cut off for certain things anymore. And there is a cost attached to that as well. So we did look at those costs and we factored those in. We looked at the -- exempting all of these, say the IBA payments, things like that, and we costed that out. So, yes, every item in here was costed out. Believe me, I know that, you know, sometimes these numbers just appear here but it is a very, very rigorous time-consuming and resource-heavy exercise to come up with these programs and justify every dollar that we want to spend and then that's analyzed within the department, that's analyzed by the Department of Finance, and then it's analyzed here in the House. Thank you.
R.J. Simpson on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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