Maybe I’ll just give a bit of
history on this, and then I’ll ask Ms. Magrum
to give
us a little more detail on where we’re at.
Just before division the outgoing government of the day had made a commitment to Nunavut harvesters of $15 million. After division the government of the day felt that we should have a similar commitment for western harvesters, so $15 million was made available to support harvesters. It was initially supposed to be a five-year period whereby aboriginal governments and band governments and so on that supported harvesters could, on a matching basis, draw down this $15 million and provide it for harvesters.
After the initial five-year period there are still substantial amounts of resources that weren’t drawn down, primarily because of difficulty with coming up with the matching amounts. More recently, with more economic opportunities and so on, I think we’re down to our last million or so.
I’ll ask Ms. Magrum to just give us the detail as to where we’re at now.