Okay, thank you. If the Minister can elaborate. Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, if she can elaborate a little bit on that. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Monfwi.

Okay, thank you. Yes, that's about it for this section. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. Is there any further questions from Members? Okay, seeing no further questions, please turn to page 238.

Industry, tourism and investment, economic diversification and business support, operations expenditure summary, 2025-2026 Main Estimates, $20,435,000. Does committee agree?

Okay, thank you. Committee, we'll take a five minute break and we'll continue on.

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Okay, committee, we will continue on. Please grab your seats. Thank you.

Moving on to minerals and petroleum resources. Order. You're here for the boss. Thank you.

Moving on to minerals and petroleum resources beginning on page 243 with information items on page 246. Are there any questions? No further questions, please turn to page 244.

Industry, tourism and investment, minerals and petroleum resources, operations expenditure summary, 2025-2026 Main Estimates, $16,751,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you. Moving on to tourism and parks beginning on page 247 with information items on page 251. Are there any questions? No further questions, please turn to page 248. Industry, tourism and investment, tourism and parks, operations expenditure summary, 2025-2026 -- I'm sorry, okay, I'm sorry. Did I -- I didn't see your hand. Do you have a question going back to -- parks on page 251? I was just on a roll. Okay, go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm so sorry, and I thought I was from Frame Lake for a second.

Anyway, I know at some point in the business plan -- I am sorry, I do not have the page in front of me -- that under the tourism and parks activity, we speak about public safety and the fact that there are a high number of incidents here -- thank you to myself for finding it -- 131 incidents have been reported in parks in the NWT since April 2024. So I'd say probably about an eight-month period before these business plans updates were printed. That is an increase of 76 incidents from 2023. Can the Minister speak a little bit to the root causes of why we're having so many issues with public safety in parks. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, we had a number of communities evacuated and the -- our parks ended up being used as evacuation spots and ended up seeing a significant increase in incidents in our parks in the territory. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So it sounds, then, that this particular measure and target might resolve itself if, you know, all deities willing we don't have any evacuations this year. So is there -- is there any kind of plan here; what kind of approach is the department taking? Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So what was done was we worked with communities to hire security for the parks in order to further support park users that were there because of the evacuation. So we will continue working with MACA and with Indigenous governments should the need arise. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. I'll go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And just generally speaking, in the Yellowknife area there are lots of folks throughout all of the Yellowknife ridings who use Fred Henne, use parks along the Ingraham Trail. Is there a notable increase of incidents outside of evacuation? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

No, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's really good to hear, and I appreciate that. I just know that when I was young, and when the Minister was young, and I'm sure we both did quite a -- a bunch of partying at the wonderful territorial parks, so. Even though she might not want me to talk about that. But, you know, making sure everybody is safe and enjoying those spaces is really important to me and our residents, so thanks for that. I'll leave it there.