I understand the program has been there since 1999, after division. It was $15 million. Again, it is matching funds: people have to come up with the money to match the GNWT money. In most cases those harvester dollars are an application-based program. Again, it does not deal with the aspect of commercialized harvesting: commercialized harvesting of fish, commercialized harvesting of wildlife, commercial harvesting by way of agricultural products in the Northwest Territories.
The harvesters program is not designed for what I’m asking for. I’m asking for nothing less than what’s been offered in Atlantic Canada: a western diversification program in regard to western Canada. I believe 1994 was the last time this government had an economic development agreement with Ottawa to look at economic dollars. Yet every other jurisdiction in Canada has it, and we don’t. It’s time we went to Ottawa and made Ottawa aware they are offering something to the rest of Canada that we’re being excluded from. Again, we’re putting a lot of emphasis and money in regard to the oil and gas and mining industries, in regard to training and investment, and also looking at the secondary aspects of the non-renewable industry, but very little by way of the renewable industry. We have to call a spade a spade. We don’t have an economic development agreement with Ottawa.