Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it is a formal letter that is written. I don't have it here since I was not anticipating necessarily to speak to that with respect to the contents of the supplementary appropriation requests. I can say we did identify some of the key pressure points that we've seen over the last five years, the wildfires, for instance, flooding two years in a row, wildfires over the course of multiple years, the costs of those that are incurred often have to get carried and carried over while we are waiting for DFAA funding to come back in, and some of those costs are born entirely by the GNWT. Pointing obviously, as well, to the health care sector which is one that is being seen as a pressure point across Canada, but we don't, then, as has been pointed out, have that flexibility that other jurisdictions -- provinces might have. And, you know, pointing also, too, to when there are cost changes that, again, inflation and an interest rate -- well interest rates and then inflation and then interest rates and what that did to projects, again, across the country. There were multiple provinces that have seen cost overruns and challenges. When we see them, we see them often particularly acutely, so pointing to all of those things. And then, Mr. Chair, speaking to the sort of -- what sort of the upcoming needs might be and that would be, you know, essentially what the pitch becomes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Caroline Wawzonek on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 10th, 2025. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Second Reading Of Bills
February 10th, 2025
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