Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. You know, it's obviously in everyone's interest to spend this tens of millions of dollars, I think. We've heard the feds say, you know, well we don't need to give you more community infrastructure money, you're not spending the money we gave you. And I've heard MACA say similarly well, we don't need to increase the community infrastructure budget, there's tens of millions of dollars not being spent. I think we all know if this was just unconditional money to spend on infrastructure, they'd get it done. But sometimes the ICIP project categories were rather specific and you kind of had to shoehorn projects in. And I know there's some frustration about that. So just a bit of a comment, I don't think -- our communities need infrastructure money but when we put these strings attached to it and then we hold it as GNWT, it's clearly having a hard time getting out the door and there's a larger conversation to be had to get all the parties to the table and make sure this money is spent. So a comment. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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