Thank you. I'll go back to YK Centre to the line item. Thank you.

I'll gladly accept that update. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there any further questions? I'm going to go to the Member from Monfwi.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know lately we've been hearing lots from small communities. We know there's lots of addictions and lots of crime happening in many of the small communities. And I know that a lot of these communities do not have a detachment. Even in my region, Gameti and Wekweeti, they really need -- they want a detachment, and they've been talking about it for quite some time. I just want to know how did these community get -- got selected for -- to have nine positions allocated? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, Members, just say thank you at the end so our tech people know.

I'm going to go to Minister of Finance. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, it is the RCMP that determine the policing standards and that put forward their policing plans that then go to Department of Justice. They are the ones that would be driving the determination of need that then gets put forward for funding appropriations. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go back to the Member for Monfwi.

Yes, well thank you. Thank you for that information. It's good to know because I think -- it's good information to know because I think now we know where to go if we're going to be -- to add two positions in one of the two communities that don't have a police detachment.

I just -- another one too is that -- okay, for next fiscal year, I think somebody did mention that if this is a one-time funding, is it a continuous funding for this program?

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister of Finance.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, so in December of 2023, it was a nine-year agreement that was fully executed. So, you know, in that sense, can I say it's permanent I suppose not. It is nine years, though. So that's far into the future and certainly creates an expectation that -- and that includes these positions for -- the nine positions for 2023-2024 and the four additional ones for 2024-2025. Thank you.

Thank you. Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2023-2024, Department of Justice, total department, not previously authorized $1,365,000. Is there any questions? Don't see no hands. Does the committee agree?

Committee, we will now consider Department of Municipal and Community Affairs on page 13.

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2023-2024, Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, directorate, not previously authorized $55,153,000. Is there any questions? There's a question. I'm going to go to the Member -- must be getting tired. From Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. You'll learn my region eventually; it's fine.

Could the Minister please provide more detail about what this funding is comparative to the -- I assume it was the evacuations for flooding and fire? Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister of Finance.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That assumptions is correct. There's an amount here reflecting the 2022 flood as well as an amount here reflecting the 2023 wildfires. They, just to be clear, don't include necessarily -- or they don't include the firefighting suppression costs that would have been incurred by ECC, which is part of a separate request we've seen. But this is for the emergency amounts that were incurred under, as I said, both 2022 and 2023 for those two events in MACA. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Could the Minister please delineate those two amounts for those two years of 2022 being flood and 2023 being fire? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to Minister of Finance.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, in 2022, the -- well, the -- actually, these aren't the detailed I have right in front of me here. Let me see, if I could just have a moment.

Sorry, so we're looking at breaking the amount down here that's before you, Mr. Chair. $475,000 is the request that's still remaining under the 2022 flood. There's been a number of previous budgetary requests. I should back up for a moment and note that the department isn't -- they're not appropriate as a base budget in order to do disaster response and recovery because obviously historical, you know, events vary wildly. That's the nature of a disaster and of an emergency. So they're base-funded to support emergency response in terms of organizing the emergency work but not necessarily to respond to the individual event.

So as I was saying $475,000 is helping to clean up what was remaining from 2022. 2023 wildfires, right now the request is at 45 -- 54,678,000 -- I'm getting tired too. 54 million -- $54.6 million. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Okay. Thank you, I'm going to go back to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And this is pretty -- an insignificant detail but when folks look at this in the public, it helps. So it's my understanding, then, that the emergency management organization sits on the directorate and that's what this funding is for? Thank you, Mr. Chair.