Thank you, Mr. Chair. I hope I don't just have 40 seconds. That's a big one. Mr. Chair, at this point these three projects do have federal funding to get them to that point where there's an understanding that -- you know, the environmental assessment work wouldn't necessarily become stale if it doesn't happen to move forward with funding in the immediate year after. It goes through still a permitting process. And even with the permits in hand, I can think of a mining project here in the territory that's been sitting fully permitted ready to go trying to get funding sorted. They are not -- it doesn't go stale. It doesn't go bad. Obviously at some point it becomes not a tangible priority. But having those permits in hand doesn't mean that we're under the clock or under the gun to have it funded the next year. It certainly gives the opportunity to go and have a conversation. It's not possible to go to Ottawa and say, will you fund a project that I haven't -- I'll put through in EA that I haven't got a regulatory permit for that I'm not really sure where I'm going to put it, but can you fund it. So that -- these three are all at different phrases of that kind of planning and preparation so that we can go with a meaningful business case with permits in hand to say we're ready, it's shovel ready, let's move forward.

In terms of balancing different priorities, Mr. Chair, this is certainly a bigger question and probably one better placed to the Premier in the sense that it applies -- we would be looking to the federal engagement strategy that is a whole of government strategy and a whole of Cabinet strategy that does look to be founded upon the priorities of the 20th Assembly and the mandate that's developed to deliver upon that.

To date, Mr. Chair, we -- obviously the housing funding that we have is, you know, outside the wheelhouse of what I have in front of me to speak to today. But it comes from different sources in the federal system as well, so we want to be able to be in a position to maximize what is coming in the territory from every single federal funding source. Canada Health, you know -- or sorry, the -- I'm getting the acronym wrong. They've changed the federal government's department of late but it's now housing, infrastructure, and communities. There's a very specific pot of money and it's very large, and we want a lot of it to come here. But there's a point that we might need to make too about also making sure that we have other things that are moving forward. So we've been fortunate to date. There is a lot of money that's come into the housing corporation, a lot of money has come into Indigenous governments for housing, and we've still been able to advance these projects.

So with all of that said, Mr. Chair, that's the goal, is to continue to achieve that kind of success where things can each continue to move at slightly different stages which allows that money to flow out. Thank you.