Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the -- some of the things that contribute to the credit rating, and the credit rating is what then allows us to then borrow at a good rate, have been things that have been cited, when I review them every -- whenever they come up with their updates, is the existence of the territorial formula financing from which we receive 70 percent of our revenues, so the fact that that exists and is relatively stable. And, you know, add to that the fact that another 10 or so percent of our revenues continue to also come from federal pots. Obviously, a little more variability, for example, in the Canada health transfer but at the same time fairly stable that we will be receiving something if it does vary a bit year to year. Also another factor that is considered, Mr. Chair, is our ability to service our debts so we have been consistently, certainly in the last five years, even with all of the challenges, sitting at around 1.5 to 2 percent of total revenues is where our debt is, so it's actually an amount that is on the lower end as compared to other provinces and territories. And in addition, Mr. Chair, I believe last year, after the announcement of the Restoring Balance initiative, mention was made of the fact that there's an ongoing effort to keep an eye on total expenditures and revenues and to try to bring that more in line with our total revenues and the fact that we have a fiscal responsibility policy that creates some transparency on markers such as when we hit the -- that 120 cushion, such as the -- you know, not putting our royalties towards operations, so on and so forth. So there's more than just the fact of hitting the debt limit.

Can I crystal ball what might be seen here overall? No. At the same time, Mr. Chair, we are in a situation where with this -- you know, with the current budget, that we have already progressed to finding $106.6 million in savings so -- and we are doing that even in the context of significant variation year to year of challenges. So we're managing and weathering some pretty significant challenges. We're doing so by finding reductions. I guess maybe I should be giving my pitch to Fitch and to Moody's right now and not to the Member, but all of which is to say I'm hopeful that we won't see change. Thank you.