Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the Member's quite right. This is within what is termed the contingent liabilities that are budgeted for and that are reported upon. It's a larger sum initially. It comes -- it's in the public accounts. It's a larger sum. It's reported as an aggregate precisely because there's often either the discussions towards resolution aren't advanced enough to know whether they should be within contingent liabilities or they're at a stage where it would not be strategically wise for the GNWT to put itself out and say well, we think a matter should settle at X dollars. That would really impede the ability to settle claims and may well actually create an incentive to bring claims if those kind of numbers were put out publicly. So that is a challenge. It makes it that we can't say last year when this was already in process and we knew there was likely to be a settlement in the life of our government to be able to go forward and say well, we know there's going to be a settlement and we're hoping, and we're aiming, for a range because that would really undermine the settlement negotiations, the mediation process that was underway in this particular example, but as in any other as well. But -- so that's the contingent liabilities, though, overall in public accounts is where you would find the amount that we are -- we're expecting or having to report on for matters of this nature. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caroline Wawzonek on Committee Motion 383-19(2): Committee Report 43-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 63: An Act to Amend the Official Languages Act - Indigenous Languages Legislative Changes, Carried
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Committee Motion 383-19(2): Committee Report 43-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 63: An Act to Amend the Official Languages Act - Indigenous Languages Legislative Changes, Carried
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