Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I did, after some of the discussions last week, just over the weekend, ask to look at how the two supplementary appropriations have come forward, if we could sort of categorize them to have some data that helps us better understand, I'm certainly happy to take this to Members and share with them on a go-forward basis and with any future supplementary appropriations that may be sought over the life of this government, just to help understand what is driving the different supplementary requests. I can say that we wound up about -- over a hundred million of it really is in what's contractual negotiations, and so that would be the conclusion of the collective agreement because it would be off cycle and would not necessarily have been built in to the departments' budgets. It does get built into the fiscal framework which is a little different. So when we plan on how much borrowing needs to happen, we can plan around what we anticipate the conclusion of that agreement to be, not necessarily knowing exactly what the amounts might be year to year. So there will be some variance there. But that's a significant amount, obviously, of the changes here. And that's not the only one. If there's lease changes over the course of the year, that's another one that might be a contractual agreement. And anyways, as I say, Mr. Chair, I'm very happy to share this kind of analysis with the Members. It might just help give a sense of what is driving some of the change.

The other big one, Mr. Chair, is the idea of emergent issues. So this is, you know, impacts from low water, impacts from fire suppression activities, impacts in past years from floods, impacts from -- on winter roads. So some of those quite distinct and unique items that come up, that makes up $87.3 million. So that's a significant cost driver that is leading to supplementary appropriations being very high.

Budget shortfalls, I agree I'd be much more concerned about. We do monitor variation -- variances at the department level as well as at the Department of Finance level and then up to the management board -- or financial management board. But, yes, certainly always happy to consider if there's other ways to do that, Mr. Chair. Thank you.