Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I certainly have looked back at data and charts going all the way to 2005, and there's a few years which is right around the time when the mines were being built that things were relatively flat, but the increase over the 16th Assembly, the 17th Assembly, the 18th Assembly show a steady -- in fact, 16th has a particularly strong spike up, and then a sort of steady increase in debt levels through the 17th and 18th. 19th, again, sort of steady the first couple of years, spikes up a little over the wildfire year, not surprisingly, and now we are, as of this moment and projecting forward, looking to level that out. So, I mean, I can't necessarily compare dollar for dollar what might have been the budget at one time some time ago but just in terms of that debt, the growth of the debt, it does, as I say, have -- you know, there is a trajectory that you can look at. We then can also look at the gap or a lack of gap between revenues and expenditures, and that, too, over time tends to be pretty similar. You will see that we -- again, devolution saw a little bit of a bump in terms of revenues, but expenditures very quickly caught up in the 18th Assembly. And again, we're trying to create a bit of space now, be really one of the first times we create some consistent and intentional space between our revenues and expenditures. So the risk management of that, Mr. Chair, I -- you know, again, that's largely what Restoring Balance is premised on, is trying to create a culture and an approach that is about not simply increasing even with a debt limit increase. I realize the time; it's probably run out, Mr. Chair. It was kind of a complex question; I was trying to summarize as quickly as I could. Thank you.
Caroline Wawzonek on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
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