Mr. Chairman, this money was earmarked for the youth portfolio and we work with the social programs Ministers. We've also done an evaluation on some of our programs and consulted with some of the youth to see where there should be some investment. It did not go to our sports division because it was accepted. We had a different submission that was rejected for our sports division and this money is earmarked for youth at risk. The programs that we have are pilot projects that we want to bring forward to see and run them as pilot projects to see how effective they are to deal with youth at risk. If the Member is interested, we can provide the rationale of every one of these programs and how and why we think they're valid and important. The Aboriginal Achievement Awards have a kids at risk component attached to it, and that's why we wanted to bring some of our youth to this function and also see some of the people that were receiving awards. Every one of these have a rationale of why we should bring them forward.
The youth centres, we recognize there's a need there. The Member is quite correct that the youth centres have a problem. There's a gap and a need for operating funds and right now that's not something we have as a program. We do provide money to the youth centres, however, and we have provided money to the friendship centres across the Territories on different programs that they've been coming to us for, including the SideDoor. So we do provide monies for friendship centres, but we do not provide money for operations. That's not something we have in our budget, but we recognize there is a need there and we're looking to see how we can help. Right now the only government that does that is the federal government. They have an aboriginal friendship centre youth centre that some communities have been able to tap into. We do, however, provide money for friendship centres and youth centres through the Community Initiatives Program. There's up to $100,000 available over a two-year multi-year funding. Many of the communities are using those monies to build centres or renovate buildings to use as centres, but right now it doesn't include operating funds for youth centres.