Thank you, Madam Chair. And I'm glad to hear that because another piece of the work that I think that the Members of the Chamber of Mines and such are doing is increasing awareness with our youth around the importance of geology, mining, and resources to the Northwest Territories. Such examples being the Rainy Lake Trail; I know that a lot of those members were involved there. And other sort of facilities that are used around Yellowknife that I'm more familiar with, but I'm sure elsewhere. We only have to look at Norman Wells to see the influence of the resource sector there.
I guess my next question, then, speaking along that line, is I will just sit here and plug again for more money to the Indigenous Mineral Development and Support Program. I think this is really great. I felt it was wonderful to take part in seeing some of the first development in mineral resource strategies but also, you know, mining projects that have kicked off that actually have Indigenous ownership, which I believe is the future of our extraction sector because I was actually just saying to my colleague from Monfwi that, you know, my goal is to support the Indigenous people and what they want to do with their land. So if they came to me and said no mining, then of course that's where I would go. But that's not what I hear.
So can the Minister speak -- and I apologize if she's already answered this, I was out of the room -- to why we're not seeing a larger amount there? And I recognize we didn't have any money spent here in the COVID time. Thank you.