As I said, this is a high-level strategy designed to encourage the sector to grow and move forward. There are costs to some of these action items that we see in the strategy. The department is presently working on them and calculating what those are going to cost moving forward. At present, we work with the federal government and the Growing Forward partnership with $1.2 million annually. We are trying to increase that. When we were down with our engagement with the federal government, I had a chance to meet with the Minister of Agriculture, and discuss this initiative moving forward, and I have also invited him to the Northwest Territories to have a look at our agriculture going forward. I talked to him about Gameti, the NFTI farm and initiatives like that, so we are hoping to be able to leverage some federal dollars moving forward. The GNWT has an agricultural working group within the departments, and we will help try to figure out how we can leverage dollars from all the departments to make this work.
Wally Schumann on Question 722-18(2): Northwest Territories Agriculture Strategy
In the Legislative Assembly on March 9th, 2017. See this statement in context.
Question 722-18(2): Northwest Territories Agriculture Strategy
Oral Questions
March 8th, 2017
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