Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, they are quite keen on the project. The project has a sense of -- so many senses of being chicken and egg, whether it's with the mineral resource industry or whether it's with the federal government. It is difficult to make a decision amongst ourselves and the Indigenous governments within the territories and say here's our project and go to the federal government without knowing what the federal government is going to put on the table or just how much at the table they're going to sit. So those are two challenges, I think, with this. Again, I want to emphasize that when there is a project with a route and a commercial structure to be proposed of who is involved, it won't proceed and can't proceed until this House approves that money to go and to be spent. And at that point, there will be a project to be debated. There are, of course, earlier points in that decision-making. I'm, you know, mentioning some of them now, routing for example. But, again, given that the project partners are Indigenous governments, that's where the time is being spent right now is there with the notion that the -- or with the knowledge that the project would then come forward here. Right now, all of the funding is 100 percent federal, and wouldn't it be wonderful if it stays that way. Thank you.
Caroline Wawzonek on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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