Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, on this one I just note that, you know, there's been pretty significant cost overruns on this project, and now here MLAs are being asked to free up another appropriation for it. And I can't help but feel a bit, you know, like, we're kind of beholden to this. We don't really have much of a choice but to deal with it. But to get to the question, you know, does the department have some lessons learned and some changes to the way contracting is managed to prevent cost overruns of this kind of magnitude from happening again? I'd be curious to hear from the Minister what we're doing to ensure that cost overruns like this -- that we have mechanisms in place to stop this from happening while the project is going on so that we don't end up with overruns of an enormous magnitude, you know, at the point where the project is either implemented or most of the way forward and so we don't really have much choice but to simply kind of eat the extreme cost overruns. Thank you.
Julian Morse on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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