Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm a bit surprised to hear the ambitious timeline considering it's spring of this year that we're already hoping to have this out the door by fall, although I'm not going to sit here and discourage the department from getting work done quickly. And I appreciate the department noting the need for and development of an investment strategy following development of the vision. And I think that's a great -- you know, that's a great order of operations there. You want to establish the vision and then what are you going to do to implement it. So great planning there.

The only question I would have is, you know, it wasn't that long ago that the government established regional economic development plans. So how do those fit into this? If we've developed regional economic developmental planning, I have to assume that those plans haven't been finished and completed and job well done. So is this going to supercede those; is it going to work in concert with them; are they a totally separate thing? Can the Minister help us better understand how this all goes together and works together. Thank you.