Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, at this point, the paper and the consultation process around coming up with a bit more of a strategy, that is being done in house. No further funds are required in this respect. It is an area where I can say there has been a fair bit of interest from the federal government with CanNor and with CIRNAC. There is what's called the SPI funding -- and I'm going to get the acronym wrong -- SPI funding, which is an area of -- strategic partnership initiative funding, which we expect could well support some training if that is what's required. But, really, at this point the first step is to go out and figure out where are the gaps, what gaps need filling, so that more businesses and residents can participate in the remediation work. That is within the mineral resource sector at the closure stages of that industry. Thank you.

Mahsi. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'm going to ask for your indulgence; I've got two more questions.

The SEED program I understand went through some kind of a review in 2021-2022 but no changes have been made. There's no increase in funds. What's going on with that previous review; and the Minister alluded to another review, why are we doing another review and when is it going to get completed? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Mahsi. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'd like to send this to the deputy minister to give a bit more of a sense about where it's been and where it's going. Thank you.

Deputy minister.

Mahsi. Mr. O'Reilly.

Yeah, thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate it. I just have one more question. The northern food development program, one of the things that, you know, there was a joint public hearing -- or SCEDE had a public hearing I think last week on this, or maybe it was the week before. And one of the things that came out of that meeting was there doesn't seem to be any way to actually measure agricultural production in the Northwest Territories. So we give out money, but we have no way of actually knowing whether there's increased agricultural production; there's, you know, some way of addressing food security in some way. What kind of stipulations are there in contributions agreements for the northern food development program about reporting of data and, you know, whether people actually increased their food production or sales or whatever? Is that part of the reporting requirements under contribution agreements for this program or other agricultural supports from the department and if it's not part of the reporting requirements, when it is going to start to be made part of the reporting requirements? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Mahsi. And Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So Mr. Chair, there's certainly are -- particularly because of the nature of this being in a joint federal program, the federal programs do have reporting requirements. There are some data collection. I don't have one of those agreements in front of me but what I can commit to do is to perhaps provide -- we'll go back and see what we can provide in terms from those reporting requirements that we have so we can provide that to the Member and if it's public, we'll make that public. I just need to confirm that there's nothing within those agreements that I'm unaware of that would limit that.

As for new data that may be gathered, all I can say on that one, Mr. Chair, is that the new agricultural partnership process with the federal government was live to the need for more data. I recall that being very clearly discussed amongst all the ministers. So there may well be some support and guidance coming on a pan-Canadian level and happy to report back as that continues to develop. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mahsi for that. Mr. Edjericon.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I got a few questions. In regards to your -- on page 230 and then I go to page 232, in here it talks about South Slave region. As you know, I represent the Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh riding, which is four communities. In here, can you explain to me -- it says full-time, and there's ten positions. Can you explain to me where are the positions? Thank you.

Mahsi. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, none of -- I mean, GNWT is not organized based on the 19 ridings of the Legislative Assembly. So I appreciate that we'll have to get some detail there. I'm not sure if I have it broken down by 19 Members here. And let me see if the deputy minister is able to and if not, we'll certainly get back to the Member with that detail. Thanks.

Deputy minister.

All right, mahsi. Mr. Edjericon.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I know this year my colleague Jane, MLA from the Tlicho region talked about the way the Tlicho is mixed into the North Slave. I also too want to raise that as an issue because you just clarified to me that, you know, you don't have that information right now but it's only Hay River and Fort Smith. But then -- so when you say that, this information is kind of skewed in a way that it rolls in Fort Resolution, Lutselk'e and N'dilo and Dettah. So where does N'dilo and Dettah fall in? Does that fall into the North -- sorry, South Slave? Or sorry, North Slave? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mahsi. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh riding, in general, would be under the North Slave. Again, we're not going to be in a position as a government to break down -- to allocate regions to being 19 regions. Whatever economies of scale that we have in the North, which are few and far between already, would be utterly lost. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mahsi. Mr. Edjericon.

Okay, thank you. Thank you for that and for clarifying that. I'm not sure when -- on one hand, you know, when I became the MLA, I represent the four communities of Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh, and I'm not sure when are we, the government, you're going to start looking to recognize that, because right now as it is the positions that are on these documents, or the monies that's going to the North or South Slave region, it's really -- I mean, how much money is it really coming into Dettah and N'dilo, to Lutselk'e and Fort Resolution? Thank you.

Mahsi. Minister.