Caroline Wawzonek

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Certainly, I agree it's a lot of money, and I think it's probably appropriate to put that out in some writing so that I am not just spitballing that size of a dollar fund. I mean, certainly some of it -- there are quite a large number of groups involved, and so to the extent of there being, you know, work happening with each group to discern the traditional knowledge, traditional knowledge studies, those are amounts that are provided directly to Indigenous communities and governments. So there's three groups, three Indigenous nations involved, but each one then also...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I suspect we will be able to find that number here in just the next few minutes. I don't have it at the tip of my fingers, but somebody else does.

$18,265,000 in previous years, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I believe it was all three of those programs were unfortunately cut as a result of the sunset and conclusion of funding that we had been receiving from the federal government, a fairly substantive amount coming from the federal government now with the signing of the new low carbon economy fund. That should -- that now is, in fact, more than what it was previously, at least for the next some period of time, a short period of time. We do expect to be able to bring back a significant amount and more than cover the losses in funding. But whether or not or what specific...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. And, Mr. Chair, I share my colleague's view on this. There's a lot of lessons to be learned, and we can't build projects in pieces. It's not effective. And this is a message for the federal government as well. When we're given small -- really what are small amounts of money to do simple, small parts, but without knowing whether or not the whole of the project is ever viable, you are building something that is massive in tiny pieces. It's not effective, and it's not efficient.

Next steps, Mr. Chair, as I said, we had members of strategic infrastructure in all Sahtu communities...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I may need to come back. Oh, let's see here, Mr. Chair, we may -- oh well, so there is -- yes, there's $40 million allotted entire and $35.9 million in prior years, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

That was what was budgeted for 2026-2027 in the capital plan, Mr. Chair. It wouldn't necessarily -- it wouldn't be the total cost of the project. The total cost of the project to run a transmission line from Taltson's facility all the way to Fort Providence would be well, well beyond that.

Yes, please, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, there's still work happening on that line. It is at this point -- I am sorry, Mr. Chair, I don't have it in my -- sorry, in my list in terms of the budget for the coming year. We do have potentially some federal funds available to it. So it's not -- it's a capital project. But, Mr. Chair, where we're at on that is we do need to have some further conversations with Naka Power. So Naka Power are the distribution agency or distribution company within Kakisa and Fort Providence. NTPC generates the power out at the Taltson facility, and the vision is to connect to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker. I am happy to say that that work happens as a matter of routine and is made public as a matter of routine. So the Northwest Territories Power Corporation does root cause analysis on all outages and the public utilities board, in fact, has jurisdiction to then review outages. So there's a couple of layers whereby these kinds of reviews do take place, statistics are made available. For example, there was, you know -- when the last GRA work was done, there's reviews that are put out start -- goodness -- charts and statistics are provided. And, Mr. Speaker, I'd...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Expanding reservoirs in terms of new flooding, I would say no, that's not been put forward, which isn't to say that there's not additional hydro capacity. So, for example on the Taltson, there is significant additional hydro capacity but also, I think, a real reluctance given the impacts of flooding on the land and the impacts therefore to people's communities and ways of life. There is some look at what the Lac La Martre reservoir would be in its current state. Again, not -- to just be clear so that there's no mistake from the public, if there are folks paying attention...