Thank you, Mr. Chair. And, Mr. Chair, first, I guess I misunderstood. So the priority -- the primary criteria rating has been done here. It did get a score B -- B, A, A, and A which is for direct impacts, severity of impacts, and urgency mitigation. Sorry, I apologize. When the project was initially began and the funding was secured from the federal government to get to the regulatory proceedings, back then there was not this rigor. It is going through that process now. But it was just the idea of a comparison when we started, it wouldn't have had that because that wasn't being applied the way it is today. So I am sorry if I wasn't clear that it is going through that process now.
But in addition to that, so if we were to stop, to date we've incurred $4.8 million only to date, and it's really the next stage, and the project went sort of on a bit of a pause when the regional economic assessment was requested to see how we can best fit in the work that's happening on the one to the other. Obviously if we are to walk away from the 75/25, then the federal government would not be paying any of the 75 so we would be on the hook for whatever amounts have been incurred to date. Again, that's not a -- well, it's $4.8 million, Mr. Chair, so it is what it is but we would then be, you know, again, losing that opportunity with the 75/25. So, you know, other opportunities, what else can we do?
Mr. Chair, that's, again, pretty big question that I'm a bit hesitant to get into today sitting here on -- with the capital budget. How do we save the economy of the Northwest Territories is kind of the question and I, again, don't know that I'm in a position to try to answer that without running the clock, so I will stop. Thank you.