Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think that's a very good question and one we have had some discussion around. I guess from our perspective as a department, we are funding something like the Great Northern Arts Festival and we are looking at it from the aspect of business development and support for traditional crafts, which will comprise business activity.
The $75,000 in new funding and the $50,000 that we have reprofiled from $125,000 to be broken out between the various regions, that funding is available through the BDF, but again we are talking about funding arts as business development. We feel that is our appropriate mandate.
Also in the Arts Strategy, ECE has money that they have profiled and I believe the money ECE is profiling is for arts, but for heritage and cultural preservation of traditional history of the arts and those kinds of areas and not necessarily for business development. That speaks to the NWT Arts Strategy. I believe they have additional money in past that have been application based that other festivals have been able to tap into, but probably that question is better put to the Minister of ECE in his budget. I do appreciate the Member's concern in terms of where we look in this government for the funding of festivals and other events. I guess we would say in terms of the Great Northern Arts Festival, we feel this one is appropriate for us. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.