Caroline Wawzonek

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So it's a separate agreement but it will then be otherwise subject to, you know, the other provisions. I mean, for instance, of when the RCMP negotiated their collective agreement, these RCMP officers are subject to that but this is separate a separate agreement from the usual or from the other funding agreement that we have for RCMP positions. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that would certainly be in the public accounts. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. For this one, and I believe for several of the others, the agreements were either signed for the first time or renewed after the time when the business planning process had been completed. And so in such cases where there's an expected or a change coming to an agreement, if it's being renewed or if it's obviously again a new agreement that comes after the business plan cycle while materials that are before the House for approval as part of the formal budgeting process, then it would come forward as a sup. That is, yes, dealing with a supplementary appropriation, that is...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It was this is a new $1 million that came in from CanNor to support the wildfire relief efforts for businesses. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, so in December of 2023, it was a nineyear agreement that was fully executed. So, you know, in that sense, can I say it's permanent I suppose not. It is nine years, though. So that's far into the future and certainly creates an expectation that and that includes these positions for the nine positions for 20232024 and the four additional ones for 20242025. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, again, I want to ensure that we do track these positions and we track the hard to fill positions. They are done by region. I'm just trying to see if I was able to give the Member an example. Well, and so that December 31st date that I'm using, there was 108 vacancies in the Beaufort Delta. That's 12 percent of the region's funded or rather funded positions so you can note slightly higher than the overall total. So perhaps lightly different slightly more difficult to recruit. But, again, would have to look at the underlying reasons. It may well be that there are some positions...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So the evacuation travel support was only was quite narrow actually in its application. It was so only four there was $400 available by vehicle for folks who had been evacuated and were able to stay within the territory and stay at evacuation centres within the territory. Up to $750 per vehicle for those who had to travel south upon evacuation. And, you know and, again, I can certainly go through some of the rationale behind that with respect to the availabilities of accommodations and food at centres and flights. And I'm well aware that not everyone was able to make...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don't I do believe that NTHSSA is likely to be running the program for 20242025 and then obviously the beginning of that business planning has only begun, we're only at the point of a mandate, and then developing the budget to support it, but this would then be one of those items that, with a commitment to continue to run it knowing that the last two years' budgeting is as I've described, that would be the kind of circumstance where the department would be expected to bring forward an adjustment to their budget to accommodate this cost. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I do believe that the Department of Infrastructure and ECC do work together in terms of having hydrologists. In fact, I'm certain they do. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So we certainly have received an advance under the I was going to say the DFA; I hope I've got the acronym correctly but I don't have that in front of me. That, though, goes to MACA. That's more on the recovery side as opposed to on the recovery and a response as opposed to the firefighting. The firefighting we may see some recoveries. There's a division as between firefighting generally versus firefighting as it applies to a community for which the federal government would provide some supports. But we've received $84 million to date, again as an estimate, advance on...