Thank you, Madam Chair. First, apologies to the translators. I think I'm speaking quickly.

Yes, so the short answer is most definitely there have been conversations with the federal government, including from the Premier's office but also from other Ministers' offices, including in particular ECC as our EMO lead, and their counterpart at public safety. The federal government is aware of the challenges created by this huge outlay of cash without an advance on what will otherwise be at least some amount of funding coming from the federal government to help offset those costs. The trick is I don't know when -- and although the response has been positive and, really, the federal government invited us to put in a request for an advance. So that, I would suggest, indicates that they are well aware that we need it and that we need it to happen quickly.

For 2022's flood season, we received a 50 percent advance, but we only got it in this fiscal year. So, again, you know, we are quite hopeful right now and, you know, optimistic that we will see an advance on the current wildfire season in this fiscal year, but I would be remiss in this role to say that's good enough and we'll see what happens. So that is why we are before the Assembly saying that the borrowing authorization, that's what gives us the appropriate cushion and legal authority to borrow short term if we need so that we can pay venders and pay staff and pay our bills in cash. Thank you.