Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, we made the initial application process last summer when the call went out from the federal government. We understood that was accepted back in September. Now, you know, yeah, why -- or sorry, yeah, so this summer I guess last year now and then in the fall, and we continued to follow up with, frankly, the assumption and expectation that given that the, you know, focus on the need for lower carbon initiatives, the focus and need and understanding on climate change and the need to be at the forefront of taking steps to address climate change, to be, again, doing everything we can, whether it's GHG reductions or other forms of response, this, I agree, has some items here, whether it's Arctic Energy Alliance, whether it's greenhouse gas reductions, so on and so forth, that seems to align with what sound to be priorities coming out of the federal government, to jurisdictions such as ours, where we are at the forefront of climate change where we are paying huge amounts to run on diesel, in a situation where no one wants to run on diesel but we lack significant investment to make change. It was a surprise to me that here we sit in our budget sessions and still don't have a response on this. There has been communications at the ADM level, deputy level. I mentioned it directly myself to my colleague -- or counterpart. I understand that the deputy minister -- or assistant deputy minister is following up -- I want to say weekly, and I hope I'm not lighting too much of a fire under him, but at one point it was weekly because we had hoped, quite frankly, to not have to put our main estimates forward without this money in them. Here we are. I'm honestly surprised. It doesn't really make sense. I'll keep at it. Thank you.
Caroline Wawzonek on Committee Motion 23-20(1): Committee Report 2-20(1) - Standing Committee on Social Development Report on Bill 2: Missing Persons Act - Government Response, Carried
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Committee Motion 23-20(1): Committee Report 2-20(1) - Standing Committee on Social Development Report on Bill 2: Missing Persons Act - Government Response, Carried
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