Thank you. My understanding is the Government of the Northwest Territories has already received a -- we'll call it interim or partial payment, which is unusual, if I understand it, being accelerated so quick. That was probably based on the assessment or assumption that it would be quite expensive coming this firefighting process. Could the Minister confirm how much has been received to date and how much are we anticipating? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I see that there's $24 million plus earmarked for the fire suppression. This is supplementary funding. Is the -- so this is on top of what's also been provided earlier. Can the Minister start the -- this round of questioning off with clarifying how much to date has been allocated for the -- I'm assuming last year's firefighting season? Thank you.

No, that will be fine. I mean, as I pointed out earlier, some of these are generic headings and from time to time you get people curious on what they actually are. Thank you. No question.

Any chance they could provide it to the Members? Thank you.

I may not have heard the answer because I was writing my next question down. So -- in fairness. So the climate change preparedness for the North, is there any type of public reporting of this particular initiative? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With respect to the two positions, are they currently staffed? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have two-line activities. One says wastewater surveillance. So what does the public actually see and know about this, and how does it get reported? It's -- these are powerful words but they're kind of generic. So, you know, somebody would say well, what does that mean and how is it reported? So what information do they gather, where do we find out about what these mean? And setting aside it's federal money, which is nil, in other words nil to the cost to the Northwest Territories, people are often curious of these types of things as just generic headings. So thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, of course, before I begin my questions, I'll note that being first in the cue and then the power goes out, and I won't say that's suspicious or incidental. Ah, the government will do anything to deny questions, so.

But no, on a serious note, Mr. Chairman, under this section we have water surveillance and we have climate change preparedness. And I'm wondering if the Minister can flesh out both of those two categories as in what the public would see and how they'd be reported for -- and that's specifically more for the wastewater surveillance. The second piece being, of course, the climate change preparedness, what would the public actually see in this activity? Thank you.

Goodness, that was the longest response, Mr. Speaker. But thank you for the detail, and I'm sure Northerners appreciate it.

Mr. Speaker, my last question is this: When consultation went out and asked people their thoughts on the health benefits, Mr. Speaker, it did not present a policy change. So people didn't know, I guess, in some ways what they were agreeing with or knowing what they were going to get. Mr. Speaker, therein lies part of the problem and there is the question, Mr. Speaker. Would the Minister be willing to send the policy to the social development committee so they can have a look at it? Because we're about expanding benefits, not taking them away or making people pay because it just doesn't work, and it's not fair. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.