The SEED program is one of the best programs ever introduced in this government and it’s oversubscribed every year. For 2009-10 it was increased by $750,000. The budget for this year is $3.2 million.

I certainly appreciate the Member’s comments with working with local associations. Generally the way we work is somebody approaches us for some assistance, like, for example, we contribute to the Inuvik Petroleum Show, we contribute to infrastructure conferences, business conferences, and all of us are members of a number of FPT -- federal/provincial/territorial Ministers -- that meet on a regular basis. I, myself, am invited to about eight or nine of these FPTs every year. We’re all on a rotation for hosting, so every 13 years we get the

opportunity to host a conference in your home province. A lot of them are so big that we haven’t been able to host them here, but certainly we help in that regard.

Otherwise, it’s very difficult for us to pay for non-residents to travel to the Northwest Territories. So generally it’s in the form of assisting with the organizing and planning.