Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the Member will notice that there is $650,000, and $75,000 goes to YK for day shelter and $35,000 goes to Inuvik for day shelter, and that was a decision made in previous governments that we have continued to abide by. The other $500,000 is distributed based on proposals submitted by different NGOs and other bodies across the Northwest Territories. In order to allocate those funds we put together an advisory committee who reviews all the applications for us and makes recommendations, which I share with committee before approving them. I am confident that the dollars are going out to the NGOs and to the applicants who are successful, but we need to do a better job of determining whether or not we are getting a big bang for our buck.

We have all talked about evaluation frameworks and making sure that we are seeing results. At the last anti-poverty meeting, we shared some possible evaluation indicators. There were a lot of suggestions for more, and there were some suggestions to take some of them off. We need to do a better job of identifying those indicators so that I can answer that question. I feel confident they are spending the money. I feel that each organization is certainly getting benefits. From a big picture point of view, it is hard to say without some indicators or evaluation mechanisms. Thank you, Mr. Chair.