Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, again, I -- what I have here in front of me is with requests -- the requests for a supplementary appropriation related explicitly and exclusively to the Northwest Territories Travel support program. I don't have in front of me an entire accounting or budgeting for all departments with respect to events related to the wildfire season, nor do I have in front of me, nor would I in the course of a supplementary appropriation, have full details that are expected to come out in the course of the independent third-party review that I know is already underway and has been the subject of much discussion here. So this program was opened up in response to a situation and a circumstance of evacuation that the territory had never seen before, was stood up very quickly. It was stood up very quickly when people were themselves already under evacuation knowing that there would have to be a supplementary appropriation to help support it but it was an effort to try to see that some funding could be made available in addition to having available supports for accommodation and flights and air and food at the evacuation centres. So this was a very limited specific benefit paid to all eligible residents regardless of the community that they were in, and that is really the parameters of what we are requesting to have here. Thank you.
Caroline Wawzonek on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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