Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the lottery fund revenues, I mean, a lot of it is based on historical information of what we've seen and also trends in Western Canada, so we're part of the Government of Western Canada Lottery Act, and essentially, you know, our sales tend to stay fairly static in the North. We see marginal increases when there's significant jackpots. So you see a lot more jackpots at 50, 60, $70 million, and that brings more money into the coffers. However, we're also seeing increase costs related to delivery of the program, similar to other areas that we've heard of. Transportation has gone up, and we're mailing stuff all over the North, so we do see our expenditures go up as well. And even in the rent costs that we're seeing an increase. So the numbers have stayed fairly static. You'll see that in 2023-2024 there was a significant decrease which is directly related to the evacuation of Yellowknife, Hay River, Fort Smith, three of the biggest users. So other than that, we do use basically historical type information for estimating the revenue going forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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