The Member is absolutely right. This is a 60/40 plan cost-shared with the federal government, and the annual contribution last year from the federal government was $732,000 and the GNWT was providing up to $488,000 in this program. The movement of programming dollars to ENR’s Take a Kid Harvesting and Take a Kid Trapping programs has negatively impacted ITI's Growing Forward equity funding, so what we've done is ITI is currently checking with other departments such as Health and Social Services and ENR to see if they have any programs that could fall under this funding requirement to help us to build our equity portion for the Growing Forward position. ITI is meeting with the federal government representatives next month to see what additional equity we can be using, and I will gladly get back to the Member on how that works out.
Wally Schumann on Question 332-18(2): NWT Agricultural Strategy
In the Legislative Assembly on October 17th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Question 332-18(2): NWT Agricultural Strategy
Oral Questions
October 16th, 2016
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