Some may say under-subscribed; some may define it as under-promoted. My cup runneth over — it’s more than half-full.
Mr. Chairman, I noticed that under the Grants area on this page — Grants and Contributions — Arctic
Energy Alliance is taking a little bit of a beating. If I may just quote some quick numbers, I see in ’06–07 they received funding of $800,000. Then you go to ’07–08, where obviously something horrible happened, and unfortunately, I was here to see it: they dropped down to $260,000. But some revelation came by, and then they got funding up to $1.6
million. Now they’re down to just over
$1 million.
Mr.
Chairman, I’m just trying to get some
understanding, under this Grants and Contributions line item, as to where this government is in support of the Arctic Energy Alliance. Is there some reason this section should lose almost, we’ll call it over, $500,000? That’s one-third of their funding, practically. This is going to have a noticeable decrease, and I’m just kind of concerned about that. Does the Minister have a response to that?