Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I share the Member's love of the Great Northern Arts Festival and would like to see it continue. It is still funded within ITI, but the funding comes out of the SEED funding.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Inuvik Boot Lake. There's no further questions? I want to go to the Member from the Sahtu.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I'm looking at all these different programs within this activity and listening to the Minister making compliments of diversification and supports. It's all good. And I look forward to -- and my presentation's more of a comment, Mr. Chair.

The Minister had mentioned that we had wildfire relief. Now we got to design low water relief. So I look forward to, as for our statement -- or my statement here to the Minister, how to design from this package of programs to design a low water relief for the Sahtu businesses? I'm constantly getting texts already on complimenting what was said because I share the Minister's support on all government approach to the clients back in the Sahtu. So I'm glad to hear that, and I'm also glad to see the various supports of these various programs that go to that problem, and I look forward to negotiating a relief package designed for these clients back home there with the Minister and this department. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll take that as more of a comment, and I'll continue on. On page 238, are there any further questions? I'm going to go to the Member from Mackenzie Delta.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We've been talking about building our economy in our committees and their deliberations. It's important that we help build our economy within each community, within each region, as a territory as a whole, but when you look at these SEED programs, the advance -- I mean, the community futures, all these programs have had a decrease in these areas where it's giving -- where it states community. It's very disturbing to see these cuts in these areas where it supports community initiatives. Can you give me some clarity on that, please. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, some of these are reductions due to duplications in programs within the department, and some of them are sunsets of programming as well. Some of them are also vacant positions within the department that have -- and some of them are -- there is also some fiscal sustainability in there as well. But the -- sorry, the duplications that you're finding in the department, what we are doing is trying to focus a lot of the funding through SEED and really looking at with what is it that communities are looking for, what is it that they want to do, and then how can we simply get funding to community members and work with communities in order to see their economic development goals go through rather than trying to get people to fit into different funding pots across the board. So unless, of course, it is a federal funding pot in which case we are required to use those different programs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I'll go back to the Member from Mackenzie Delta.

I'm just looking at what my colleague from Inuvik Boot Lake just stated was the Great Northern Arts Festival. We have a festival that's affiliated with the community of Fort McPherson, the Midway Lake community -- I mean, the Midway Lake Music Festival. Has this organization ever made a proposal to your department for funding? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, anybody who would like to be able to kind of travel that same road and put in an application to have their festival funded within the program would need to put in an application under the community economic development stream. So I would encourage anybody to go through and do that for sure. And if they want support in order to do that, they can go to their regional director -- or sorry, regional office, and our regions will definitely work with communities across the board in order to see what kind of funding can be sourced. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member for Mackenzie Delta.

Okay. No, my question was I'm looking for funding for Midway Lake. Has the organization ever approached your department or regional department for funding in the past? I'm just wondering if that's something that this organization has ever pursued. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I don't have that level of detail with me here today as far as who may have applied for it, but I'd be happy to pull that information for the Member and get back to him, for sure.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Mackenzie Delta.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. One last question, what's the criteria for some organization, like, that's applying for -- may want to apply for funding; what's the criteria? Do they have to be affiliated to a society of some sort? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, there's multiple streams. There's streams that are for people who are sole proprietors that own their own business. There's streams for organizations. There's streams -- a multitude of different streams. There's streams for Indigenous governments. And so my suggestion would absolutely be for people to reach out to their regional office if they have a project that they would like to see go forward, an event, or especially if somebody has an economic development idea they'd love the support of seeing through.

Thank you. I'll go back to the Member of Mackenzie Delta.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it would depend on what exactly they were asking for, the amount they're asking for, and what stream of the program they're entering into. So, for example, somebody who's a sole proprietor that would like to be able to access SEED dollars in order to kind of propel their business and see it evolve would be expected to provide quotes for what it is that they're looking for and also, you know, an indication of their own equity that they want to put into the project as well. So I would say it really depends on what it is that they are looking to do. But there are streams that speak to multiple organizations and individuals across the territory. The goal here is to try and help people evolve their business ideas and support them to see economic development and also arts across the territory evolve and flourish.

Thank you. I'll go back to the Member from Mackenzie Delta.