The fact that the decision has been made to move the Arctic Winter Games outside of the City of Yellowknife, there are extra costs involved, there’s less corporate ability for the host societies to attract good corporate sponsorship. There’s going to be some enhancements to facilities for either south of the lake or up in the Beaufort-Delta to take on to accommodate these games.

The decision was made two years ago, actually, to put this in our budget. We put a proposal through to increase the pot I think it was $3.5 million. It’s a million this year. Over a three-year period it goes enhancements of a million dollars per year and the third year it’s $1.5 million. It’s just to help the host society in either location because they don’t have the luxury of being in the city of Yellowknife where there’s a lot of corporate sponsorship. I think that decision is a good investment, and hopefully we have more games outside of the city of Yellowknife to build capacity at the regional level. Thank you, Mr. Chair.