Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, thank you, I'm happy to have the question. So this wasn't intended to be a blanket increase to every funding pot, every contribution agreement, every grant agreement, every program dollar that goes out the door to the nonprofit sectors across the Northwest Territories. This was to address the fact that for up to now, non-profits were out offering services and conducting business really that, without their taking that on, the Government of the Northwest Territories would have to take it inside. So the easier examples often are around the health and social services side. So, for example, you know, organizations that provide sheltering services, that provide disability services, that provide residential services. On ITI's side, it's tourism association that does work and the CF's deliver the programming to the business sector on our behalf. If they weren't doing it, public servants would have to do that work. Public servants see increases obviously in their wages. The non-profits were not. That was the gap that we were trying to fill, not to increase every single, you know, project-based fund that goes out the door. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Caroline Wawzonek on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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