Caroline Wawzonek

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...

Madam Chair, I'm sorry, I don't know how we've managed to lose the train of thought here. I think we were looking for one answer and then another question came in. So can I just get - I'm sorry, but what is the question that we're looking for the answer on now, please.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So an estimate right now would be in the range of approximately $370,000. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, again, that would involve going through project by project over 33 different communities. The GNWT is the flowthrough agent. So the federal government really just provides the money but we allocate it out without - you know, it's not up to us to decide for a community what project they want to advance or not. So there is a lot here that's being carried over, and I'd be happy to try to work in a new way if there is one but, really, this is money that is not ours to decide upon it. Really, just what we want to keep it available for communities but I can't...

Madam Chair, again, if I could just put that one to Mr. Courtoreille, please.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, let me turn that to Mr. Courtoreille. He may have that information available.

Certainly, Madam Chair, that - we can certainly - yes. Yes, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, there was some delay obviously - well, I shouldn't say obviously. There was some delay early on in the project due to problems not dissimilar to others we've seen across Canada around supply chains. However, Madam Chair, there certainly is, as I've said before, there is a project money here now for $2.555 million expected to continue this project moving forward. There is quite a lot that's happening at the site right now.

It is moving forward at this point. I don't expect - you know, all I can say is what's here, is that we are asking for the carryover...

Thank you, Madam Chair. That is correct, this is a carryover only. It's not the total project in and of itself. So completion of the complete overall is not expected until 20272028 in its entirety. But this does begin the work of engineering, survey, and design, and this will be enough - or at least it's anticipated to be enough to complete that stage of the project, and then with a project to go out to procurement thereafter. Thank you.