Thank you. Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2024-2025, Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, operations expenditures, sports, recreation, and youth, not previously authorized, $394,000. Are there any questions? Seeing no further questions.

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2024-2025, Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, operations expenditures, sports, recreation, and youth, not previously authorized, $394,000. Does the committee agree?

Thank you.

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2024-2025, Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, operations expenditures, total department not previously authorized, $502,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you. Members, there is a schedule on page 17 that details borrowing authorization, and on page 19 that detail supplementary reserve impact. Are there any questions to these schedules? I'm going to go to the Member from Range Lake.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. After this appropriation, how close will we be to the federally imposed borrowing limit? Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister to the question.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. $3.6 million.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Range Lake.

That's very close, Mr. Chair. I know the government has put in a submission to increase the borrowing limit. Can the Minister provide the House with an update on that. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, Mr. Chair, so earlier in the fall, or I guess now in the fall, I had written to make that request. I have recently had an opportunity to be in contact with the Minister of Finance for the federal government who has confirmed that the matter is moving forward. We don't have a final confirmation. There is an internal process within the federal government that they go through, but I understand that that is underway. So I had hoped to have a final confirmation of that obviously before we are now in our own budget session but we are confident, given the information that I've received and that the deputy minister has received from his counterpart, that we will receive the amount that we had requested. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Range Lake.

Thank you. What was the amount requested; is the Minister able to share that? Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.

$3.1 billion, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Range Lake.

Thank you. Is that inclusive or additional? Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.

That would be the then total, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Range Lake.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, does increases to the borrowing limit, do they require parliamentary approval, or is this something that could be done at the treasury board? Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.