Thank you very much, Madam Chair. So, Madam Chair, the increases in programming, the bulk of it comes from income assistance, and that is from the review that was done in the previous Assembly on income assistance that separated seniors and persons with disabilities into their own income assistance. And so there was additional funding put in to that and put into income assistance. There was also adjustments made on the market basket measure to ensure that the dollars that Northerners were getting were reflective of the actual costs, for example, of food in the Northwest Territories.

There's also an increase that is seen here under the seniors' home heating subsidy. And so what the Department of Education, Culture and Employment has traditionally done where you see here with the actuals that are different than the main estimates under the seniors' home heating subsidy is because the policy states that, you know, we strive to support elders across the territory up to 80 percent of their fuel costs should they meet the criteria of this program, because of the rising cost of fuel we were constantly having to fund from within and find those dollars in order to ensure that we were supporting seniors. And what we did this year -- and so you'll see in the main estimates for this year there's actually an increase, and that was based on forced growth. We were successful in getting forced growth funding for the seniors' home heating subsidy in reflecting how important that program is for northern seniors and elders. Thank you.