Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is an initiative that we've been working on for some time now and we do currently fund some of the work that the secretariat is doing, but the bigger piece of work that we're looking to fund is in the neighbourhood of $1.5 million over five years. We've been expecting that the federal government would come forward with their money. The NGOs have already indicated that they've got the money ready to go and we impacted the three partners in the PAS. We still don't have a firm signal and firm commitment from the federal government as to their contribution. I think at this point we've decided that we may not, in fact, be able to wait for that and we're going to have to go forward. So I am putting some work to go in front of our Financial Management Board to seek this funding to continue to support the PAS. Thank you.
Brendan Bell on Question 275-15(3): Protected Areas Strategy
In the Legislative Assembly on October 21st, 2004. See this statement in context.
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October 20th, 2004
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