I’d like to ask the Minister how do people prescribe to this program? I have people who are doing some outfitting businesses on the side, but they are just struggling with regard to that business, but they are looking for other options to keep their businesses sustainable. I think this is a perfect opportunity or something they can look at since they are already running a business. Most of their business is during the summer months. These facilities can be used during the winter months for those types of projects.
Again with the Gwich’in, we have two camps; one outside of Inuvik, we have the Tl’oondih camp above McPherson. These are multi-million dollar facilities which could provide these types of services on a short-term basis.
It’s important to note that you have a facility in Inuvik with four inmates and it’s costing $2 million a year with 14 staff. I think if anywhere, that’s where you can find the money and implement programs like this right across the Territories in all regions so all cultural organizations can have an opportunity to develop a program for their residents, so that they can come back to the region and take these camps and start up being in the southern institutions in Fort Smith, Yellowknife or Hay River and they can serve out their time in their home regions. So, again, what is the process for somebody to apply to this program? Who do they contact? Who would they call in order to show an interest?