Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate that commitment. I would like to see what the -- where they're spending the money and where they kind of feel their needs lie. So, yeah, if the Minister could send that along, that would be great. And again, just -- I've talked lots about silos. So I do hope that there is more of a conversation happening around energy for supporting our agriculture sector.

My next question is around the commercial fisheries. Again, we're seeing a bit more -- or sorry, a decrease in money on the actual from the revised estimates to what we're estimating for the upcoming year. Can the Minister speak to what that -- that change is. Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of ITI.

Yeah, Madam Chair, thank you. I'd suggest that one go to Nina Salvador, please.

Thank you. Ms. Salvador.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you. And the reason that that's now gone is that that's evolving with the change in the fishers federation, is that correct? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister of ITI.

That's correct, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm now looking at the community transfer initiatives. I'm happy to see that we're at least not cutting the money there, and there's a little bit more than we actually spent. It is my understanding that -- and I probably should know this so forgive me for asking. But that this is not -- that there are some communities that don't have these organizations in the community, and so I'm just wondering in a case where a community doesn't have a transfer initiative, where -- is there money being made up in another pot somewhere. Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of ITI.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, Madam Chair, there are a couple of communities that have opted not to undertake having communities -- or community foundations, community transfer initiatives, and no, if they opted not to do that, then they are -- then they've opted not to do that. They're not recipients. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you for that, then. Is there an opportunity, then, for them to come back at some point and rejoin if they were to decide that they wanted to become part of this initiative again? I would guess there's a changeover in staff often, people have big personalities at times, and perhaps a new ED or something may want to come back on board. So could the Minister speak to maybe how that would even happen or could it happen? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of ITI.

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. I think there's only a couple of communities, and certainly the first step would be to path find some reasons why communities -- organizations might not be part of this funding pool. It may well be just their own decision around how they're managing their bookkeeping.

There's an opportunity for partnership here with CanNor which is with whom we work on this initiative. So absolutely, if there's a community that would like to be more involved, I would suggest that they start -- let's start the process by having some pathfinding done with ITI, and then we'll move -- we'll move forward from there. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to spend the rest of my time talking about SEED, the support for entrepreneurs and economic development. I am disappointed to see that we aren't increasing this money in the upcoming year. I think that given that we are at the start of our economic recovery, even that we were just in a wave as of two months ago, or an outbreak, can the Minister speak to why the decision was made not to increase the SEED funding this year? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of ITI.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So it's not necessarily a decision not to increase so much as it's a decision that it may or may not come forward as an initiative, and obviously there's quite a wealth of opportunities for different initiatives across the GNWT given our 22 priorities and the impacts of COVID. So, yeah, SEED at this point did see a lot of increases because a lot of recovery funding went through that. There is a lot of work happening, though, right now in terms of reviewing the SEED program. There was an effort done to get a sense of a survey as to its effectiveness. Not a lot of responses. But we're hoping to be able to try that again when things are settled down for the private sector a bit with COVID recovery. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.