Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, if I can say to Members, if they want me to follow along in the business plan, it would be helpful if they gave me a page number.
So in regards to the changes in the labour development and standards section, we've gone from 2024-2025 Main Estimates of $17 million, and now we're sitting at 2025-2026 Main Estimates of $18.9 million. And so if the Member is wanting me to reference a different section, very, very happy to speak to specific sections and what the changes might be.
As far as changes in number of employers itself, I guess in that case would venture to pass to assistant deputy -- no? I am going to say that at the end of the day, I don't have the data that would show, you know, on hand right now, who those employers are and kind of what that would look like. There's certainly going to be fluctuations year over year, and our staff are going to continue to work with residents in order to increase, first of all, through my ITI hat, the number of self-employed persons that we have across the territory. And then with my ECE hat back on, certainly working to make sure that we are supporting employers to grow, that we are supporting them to access wage subsidies so that they can take on more staff, do more training. And the addition of that is I will say in conversations about this in other circles that there are also businesses currently being purchased by larger conglomerates. And so, you know, where we've got joint ventures or we've got, you know, the purchase of different businesses. This has even happened in Kam Lake by Indigenous governments or by dev corps themselves. And so the differences in our number of businesses, while there are businesses that have a certainly closed in the territory, some of them are businesses purchasing other businesses, but I don't have that level of detail in front of me here to say what exactly I'm pointing at here. Thank you.