It’s clear that I have lots of colleagues that share your enthusiasm for this real high potential area. I agree that there are a lot of amazing and wonderful entrepreneurs out there. I noted that they also play a big role in the communities for sharing their expertise. They’re all very much outgoing that way and are real nodes and worthy of our support. I’m very glad to hear that this is fully supported.

I guess maybe just to move on here. Are these $300,000 essentially federal dollars? Are those the going forward or is that in addition to that? I’m wondering what that amount would be.

I’m also – just to get my questions in all together here – wondering if there’s been success on the work to get in place a mushroom enterprise, the guidelines for mushroom enterprises in terms of permits and so on. Where we’re at on that. I believe work was started in the 16

th Assembly on that and if

we do have a big fire year, and we had some fires, last year there could be again hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of mushrooms that would be exported from the NWT, or transported at any rate. Last time most of the people benefitting were from outside the NWT. We want to capture that in the North as well.

My final one is with regard to the fish program of support. I know my colleague from Hay River South had a suggestion. I’d love to see local people taking advantage of this industry and I wonder if we have a mentorship support program in the fishing industry. Something that allows young people to get out with the fishermen, experience the program,

even on a short-term basis to help solicit interest in that industry.