Thank you, Madam Chair. So this $75 million is going to the Department of Environment and Climate Change. They are the lead, and this to supplement their existing budget of roughly $21.8 or so million. So this is to supplement that budget. That's a base budget that they have annually for wildfire suppression. I don't know exactly what proportion of that necessarily flows directly to a community or to community government or to individual contractors, nor can I say at this point whether the shortfall is going to proportionate to that or not. We would -- we have been doing variances in terms of what is being spent within that area of funding but not necessarily a detailed breakdown. So as I've said, we can repair ultimately -- we do prepare annual contracting reports and can ensure that there is one that is specific to the wildfire season. That might take a bit of time. We are sadly still in the wildfire season right now. It's out of control with fires burning in multiple locations. As for, again, what will go to individual municipalities, you know, as I said to the Member from Yellowknife earlier, it -- you know, I don't yet know from the municipalities themselves what they have spent. So there's still a bit of work to be done, and -- but as this comes in, we'll certainly -- I can certainly commit that we'll be doing an effort to make that contracting and reporting available. Thank you.
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