Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I can definitely share that the mayor has not raised concerns about this particular project to me but certainly this project's lifetime predates my time in this seat, and so with your permission, Mr. Chair, through yourself, I'd like to pass it to the deputy minister.

Thank you. I'll go to the deputy minister.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, no, just to close that loop, I just encourage the Minister and her staff to continue to work closely with the city. I think there's a lot of goals that are aligned and, you know, there's efforts and resources at the city level, too, for economic diversification and business support, so just making sure that people are all pulling in the same direction and we don't either duplicate efforts or end up working at cross-purposes when, you know, we have scarce resources in this territory and certainly need to do everything we can to support economic diversification, including the fisheries industry and really boost the infrastructure we have for that here in Yellowknife. Thank you.

I'll go back to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I absolutely agree, and I'm all ears for any opportunity to work together and to combine resources. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

That's all. Thank you.

Is there any other Members have questions? Okay, don't see none.

The Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment, economic diversification and business support, infrastructure investment, $2,250,000. Does the committee agree?

Thank you, Members. Please turn to page 48, minerals and petroleum resources with information items on page 49. Are there any questions? I'm going to go to the Member from Range Lake.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I'd like to ask about the -- one of my favorite topics, the MARS system and to see where we're at. I note the costs continue to escalate on this project and so does the implementation date. So can the Minister provide an update to the House. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, on this particular project, the original budget was $4.2 million over a three-year time period and throughout the project, because of different delays, it was readjusted to a budget of $3.7 million over five years. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Range Lake.

Okay, thank you for the correction from the Minister. So are we still on track to have this implemented according to schedule? Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I would like to acknowledge the Member's comment about according to schedule. I think that's an important comment that the schedule has changed over the lifetime of this project.

Where it stands right now is the first component of the MARS project is the LTOS portion of it, and that is the land tenure optimization system that is currently being worked on ISSS. Originally, that piece of the project was going to get done first and then MARS would get done afterwards. And what we're currently working on is how we can marry these two projects together so that they can actually be built in parallel to one another so that we can work on improving that timeline that I know that the Member is referring to. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Range Lake.

Thank you. So the estimated completion is 2026-2027? Is that still what the Minister -- is that still in line with this project; will the project stick to that completion date? Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. That is certainly my goal, and our current go live date is June of 2026. For further detail, Mr. Chair, can I pass to the deputy minister, please.

Yes, I'll go to the deputy minister.