Mr. Speaker, for the record, the federal government did not renew their commitment. Our government has to deal with this on an annual basis as well. From time to time we’re given money that has a window to it — three years, five years — and we know it’s going to come to an end. We do put pressure on to try to continue programs. We’ve got some issues we’re going to have to bring to the table around existing arrangements we have with the federal government that could have a further negative impact on us.

This sector and that group were definitely affected. Then last year, short term, we put additional money

on the table. That was one-time money as well, and everybody was aware of that.

In our system, with the arrangements we have, we’re going to look at how we strengthen our relationship from the Government of the Northwest Territories. We can’t tell the federal government how they should do it. We write letters of support and try to encourage things, but from our side we’re going to look at our arrangement and try to see where we can strengthen the relationship.