Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just have to go back to my issue with heritage and projects. Maybe it’s just the way that it’s written, but if I look on page 10-20, the NWT Arts Council gives contributions to artists and cultural groups – okay, that might include heritage – but then it goes on to
say to encourage creative artistic projects in visual literary performing and new media arts in the NWT. I would think that a heritage organization is not likely to want to do a creative artistic project.
I again would have to stress to the Minister that I don’t see much opportunity in here for a heritage organization like, say, the Norman Wells Heritage Society. They get funding for their building, yes, but do they get funding for outreach, for education purposes, for other programs that they might do? I don’t really see that there’s much in here. If it’s included – there’s cultural organizations on page 10-19 for $554,000 – if it’s included in there, then okay, fine. But I really don’t see where the word heritage is relative, is specifically related to programming on these three pages.
If I could maybe get a bit more explanation as to if the wording is incorrect and the word heritage needs to be added, or if there just isn’t money for heritage programming.