Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess, in terms of some of the capacity money that we have talked about and the contributions that will flow from the MVPO, I can certainly give the Member some examples and take him through a bit of a breakdown of that. I think it is certainly a worthwhile question.
There are, of course, other programs that we have throughout the government and throughout this department to help small businesses build capacity in that regard -- obviously, education training money -- but, when we talk about capacity, we are not, as the Member indicated, talking about advancing funds to purchase scaffold equipment like trucks. We are talking essentially about human resource capacity.
Much of this money is application based from a community or regional group. If we look at the aboriginal capacity building money, the $360,000 proposed for this year, we know that last year there were applications made by the Inuvialuit, Gwich'in, Sahtu, and Deh Cho regions. Typically, they would put together a proposal and talk about the kinds of initiatives that they think are worthwhile and would require funding. I think, if I could generalize it, it would be in the area of probably training and education for people in their community. Sometimes there would be monies allocated for contracting technical expertise. There may be travel costs in the proposal to enable people to go to where the training is or to attend technical sessions to build this human resource capacity.
The Resource Pre-development Program I referred to earlier, our $200,000 is essentially earmarked for the tax-based municipalities. It gets them to the table to be able to negotiate with the Producers Group. It is essentially a fee-for-service arrangement. I don't believe it is enough for us to just expect that these municipalities will have the resources to sit across the table from Imperial Oil. Obviously, they require some technical capacity. They will need people who are agreement specialists, presumably lawyers as well, in order to be able to negotiate. Our money would provide for that kind of thing. When we refer to capacity, we are talking about human resource capacity. I hope that is of some assistance. Thank you, Mr. Chair.