Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Growing Forward 2 would be an investment of $1.2 million on an annual basis and give us $6 million to put towards agricultural initiatives in the territory over the next five years. The current program expires at the end of this month. We are moving forward in looking at signing the new deal with Ottawa on a way forward for the additional funding.

Some of the areas of investment would include small scale foods, mentorship, traditional harvesting, as well as building industry capacity here in the Northwest Territories. It is very exciting for us. This represents about a half a million dollars

more on an annual basis to the agricultural industry here in the Northwest Territories.

We have been consulting with the Territorial Farmers’ Association, and to get specifics on when these consultations took place and who they were with, I would certainly make that commitment to get that information back to the Member. Thank you.