Thank you. I'll go to the Minister. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it's a very specialized expertise. These are people who, you know, look at -- they're very skilled at their work, and they travel far and wide to come to the North to do this work. And so certainly when we put out RFPs, we're looking at multiple companies. Unfortunately, like many businesses, our costs do keep going up.

We have had requests from diamond mines to increase their valuations. And what that ends up doing is increasing ultimately their paydays in order to make sure that they continue working on their cash flow at a difficult time for diamond mines. And what we've said to them in this case is that we will certainly ensure that we are making the process available but we as a government won't absorb the costs of that. And it's one where even though it is -- this is difficult because this is the year that we're looking at, it's really important that we don't look at this cost in isolation because it's largely the same cost with some forced growth year over year over year. The industry has kind of a set range of where they fall in this kind of cost market and what this role demands, as far as like what funding it calls for, but it's really important that we consider the revenues over the lifespan when that contract is over the lifespan as well. And unfortunately, with commodities like this, there are amazing years, there are not-so-great years. And we're in a not-so-great year. Thank you.