I’m still trying to get a little bit more detail on what they mean by support. I know that a lot of the departments have gone a long way to actually provide some money to conferences when they come up, but what I’m talking about more specifically is promoting the Northwest Territories and having the associations that are in the Northwest Territories go out and work their national and international bodies to try and come up here.

In my Member’s statement I talked about a support mechanism that the government could put into place to encourage local associations to convince their national or international counterparts to hold their national or international conferences here in the Northwest Territories; specifically, a financial incentive that should a local group successfully lobby these organizations and hold their meetings here,. I believe with minor modifications to the SEED program, this might be an appropriate funding source. What is the SEED budget today and how much is actually being expended? Are we surplusing any of the SEED budget?