Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I just want to be very clear that, you know, I -- I'm not necessarily suggesting that that needs to be the case with this contract. It's more just ensuring that we've got robust controls around our contracting. Just knowing that, you know, we see costs overruns a lot. And it's important to note that, you know, a lot of the projects that the government does, virtually all of them, are for essential infrastructure, like this, like a school. Like, this is not something that MLAs are going to turn around and say, you know, we're just going to have to cancel this. Because they absolutely need a school in Tuktoyaktuk which means that the government, to a certain extent, is beholden to building it virtually whatever the cost, and that puts us in a really difficult situation, and I think that's part of what has led us to be in this situation where we are constantly frequently going over budget on projects. And so I think we do need to be really careful about ensuring that we have robust controls in place. And also that we're honest with ourselves about budgeting. I mean, if -- you know, I know that we're -- we try our best to learn from previous experiences, but it just seems to me -- I made statements about this in the past, and I'll digress it after this, but, you know, that it does seem to be something that happens quite frequently. We see a lot of supplementary estimates come in, and this one is just, in particular, quite high, and we see a lot of that. And so I think it is our responsibility as public government to do what we can to ensure that we're taking steps to prevent it as much as possible. So I'll leave it at that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Julian Morse on Committee Motion 77-20(1): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 341-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures and Borrowing Authorization), No. 1, 2025-2026, Carried
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Committee Motion 77-20(1): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 341-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures and Borrowing Authorization), No. 1, 2025-2026, Carried
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