I thank the Member for raising the issue of agriculture here in the House and how important it is to many of our communities here in the NWT. The government continues to support agriculture in the NWT through the Territorial Farmers Association and other programs that we provide.

I know we have this Growing Forward 2 Fund that we’ve signed off with the federal government. It is going to provide about $6 million here in the Northwest Territories for other programs related to agriculture and the development of our agricultural centre. I believe we are looking for a type of signature project through this new funding arrangement with the federal government and it’s something that is going to be important as we move forward. I’m not quite sure if the development of a bottled water plant in Deline would fit in that, but it’s certainly something I think… It hasn’t come up since I’ve been Minister of ITI. It may have been brought forward previous to that, but I think it’s something like that is going to provide the possibility of jobs in a small community like Deline. Certainly it’s a very interesting thing.