Caroline Wawzonek

Thank you, Madam Chair. I know we have that total here. Let me start with the deputy minister, and we will have that available.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, there is also, you know, a lot of concurrency here with the Land Tenure Optimization System, or LTOS, and that will certainly be a significant factor as in there will be, I expect, some additional costs, and probably not insignificant costs. That is the bigger picture system and MARS is one part of that. So yes. Short answer though is yes, happy to ensure that we can give a bigger update to committee. Some of that may be confidential depending on contracts state but as much as can be made public, I'll certainly make note that we provide that as well. Thank...

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, this really was a communitydriven - these are communitydriven projects and initiatives. It's really not one that has a lot of oversight by the GNWT. That said, and just to defend, if I might, the communities as a whole, there certainly is money being spent. There are some projects that are being advanced, and the smaller project, often the more nuanced the reasons were of carry over.

It may well be in one community a very specific labour market issue and in another community inflation and in another community a supply chain. These are smaller projects...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I mean, I would say it is probably comparable to the idea of a holdback if that is one way of - if that's a more familiar way of putting it. But - so you would hold on to the money until you're satisfied, a project of course reaches the stage of being considered to be fully complete, that doesn't necessarily mean that you are entirely releasing all funds under a holdback or the warranty amount. So this is the last, hopefully, tail end of that and with this summer season available, that should be enough to not only be substantially complete but in order to confirm that...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, that's likely a question that requires not only the Department of Finance to be involved but also the Department of Infrastructure and ECC. So certainly can commit to taking that back to my colleagues and having that bigger conversation. It doesn't necessarily speak to the reason why we are seeing or certainly not the only reason why we're seeing this impacts here on this sup. A lot of our impacts some of the impacts are due to the floods last year but there's also some fairly significant amounts attached to health and social services here.

So one thing I...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, there's been significant contributions from the federal government overall to both the building of the fish plant and to the fishing industry. So I do want to acknowledge that, actually quite a significant amount. I don't know that it's going anything to this specific item although I will note it's my recollection that CANNOR was quite heavily involved in procuring some of the equipment that's gone in. Again, so there's been a lot of supports, but just not perhaps on this particular element of the fish strategy. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, so, Madam Chair, if we do exceed the amount that's available in the supplementary reserve, then that does potentially draw down on what would have been in anticipated or projected to be as a surplus. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, that is correct. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I have on my left Mr. Bill MacKay, deputy minister of Finance. And on my right, Terence Courtoreille, the deputy secretary to the financial management board.

Madam Chair, that has actually been in fact, calculated. Ask and you shall receive. $1.1 million approximately in terms of the transportation and accommodations to accommodate the need for those who had to travel for birth. Thank you.