Mr. Speaker, of course. In every one of our communities, especially in our smaller communities, where the services aren’t as abundant and we don’t have the benefit of all the groups that can collect in the larger centres, it’s very important.
We’ve worked with Municipal and Community Affairs in those areas, trying to strengthen our
relationships, and in fact, as mentioned, we’re going to try to step up in a number of areas.
Does that mean we can just come up with money to match an existing process? We haven’t done that in this budget. If Members want to continue the existing process, then through the business plan that’s an option. We work with Members, and if there’s support for that initiative, then that can be reviewed.
But going ahead in this budget, we’re setting out a process where we have as the GNWT the existing relationship, and we're trying to see where we can improve and strengthen that. That is a commitment from this government.