Thank you, Mr. Chair. So in EIA's business plan under departmental highlights page 87, there is a piece around the communications functional review. So the description of this review is almost identical to the last one done in 2014, which was known as the likely report. And I'm going to argue here today that, you know, the reason that communications doesn't get better is no one really wants to fully implement the recommendations that are in that report, and departments want to continue to do what they are doing, namely, preferring to keep control of their message. And so we continue to ask, we continue to review, we continue to ask, you know, will it get better, hoping we'll get different answers that we like. So I'm really going to urge the Minister and his department to scrap this and save yourself some money.

To the Member from Yellowknife North's points, you know, it is $2.7 million or 11 percent of the budget. The reason that communications started to centralize didn't fully realize the recommendations of the 2014 report is because it was asked to centralize and sort of control that messaging, one government, one voice. So that's why you've seen the general growth of comm staff in the central agency. I would argue it's clarity of decision-making, not communications that are the -- is the real problem. Our communicators in the government are world class. I consider a lot of them very awesome and excellent people doing the best they can with what they have. But, yeah, I'll let the Minister speak to that. Thank you.