Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. And so, you know, I appreciate that answer from the Minister. I'm very glad that they are considering the O and M for these. You know, that does bring me some comfort.

So I want to speak a little bit -- I mean, we heard from the ECE Minister just today detail the magnitude of costs for infrastructure for the college, for example. And of course, there's only so much federal money we can seek. The same can be said for housing, which MLAs have been clear is a priority. And so one of the problems we have is we can only seek so much federal funding. We can only receive so much federal funding. So how are we able to effectively action our priorities when we're simultaneously trying to advance multiple projects that are outside the possibility of affordability for the territory to build and also trying to advance what I might describe as competing priorities. So help me understand how it all makes sense. How are we going to effectively -- because, I mean, this has been one of the conversations we've been having over and over and again in the House, you know, during this budget session is, you know, how do we effectively action our priorities? And if all of our planning and staff time and federal funding is going towards other projects, of course the opportunity costs is that we're losing out on things that we also have prioritized. So I'm trying to understand how to make sense of all this and make sense of the -- you know, the Minister's gotten up, and with a very somber expression, spoken about dire financial outlook but we seem to be planning as if our fiscal outlook is positively incredible. So, Mr. Chair, if the Minister could kind of comment on that statement, I'd appreciate it.