Mr. Chair, after doing some research in regard to previous years’ expenditures in grants and contributions in this department…. For 2005–2006 activities they expended $4.975 million in regard to this same program. So that tells me there has been a need for this program. It’s almost $5 million some two and a half years ago, but yet now we’re down to $700,000. That’s a major decrease in a program where you can see from the actual expenditures that there has been intake by the people in the Northwest Territories for these types of programs. Also, for us to basically estimate a year ago, in regard to 2007–08, we’re looking at $2 million, but if you look at the actual, it’s $2.2 million. Again, Revised Estimates tell us that there is a need for this program.

So I’d like to ask the Minister: exactly how much money has been spent to date on promoting the new programs? We see it in the newspapers; we see handouts in the different brochures and whatnot. What’s the cost that we’ve been spending promoting these programs?

I think we also have to tell the general public that we’re promoting programs but we don’t have any real money to administer those programs by way of being able to have people access those programs through application.

How much money has been expended to date in regard to the promotion and the layout of these new programs?