R.J. Simpson

Thank you. I'll just send that over to Mr. Shannon. Thanks.

Thank you. So the idea was to look at the revenue study and figure out how we are going to support the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre to fulfill the legal our legal obligations to store archives and wrap it all up in one package with a name change. And so that work is all happening.

I will say that, you know, a revenue study is looking at more than just charging admissions. I mean, you could look at number of people through the door and multiply that by two and then you know how much you would make for charging people $2 to get into the heritage centre. So it's more than that. It's...

Thank you. Perhaps I'll send it to the deputy minister for that level of detail. Thank you.

Thank you. Aurora College makes up that difference. Thank you.

Thank you. And no, I'm not talking about the government renewal initiative. As the Member may recall, the art strategy included a number of actions in there. The first action, it's one of the foundational action, was to review the current programs that we have. And again, that work could have been done prior to a strategy being released, and we could have released the strategy with the reviews done, you know, perhaps this year or sometime next year but we decided to do it in that order. And so we have we know what we have. We know what our inventory of arts funding is, our programs are, and...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Very serious. I'm very passionate about this, this file, and like I said I think it's there's a lot of good work happening, work that wasn't happening, you know, just five years ago. A lot of strides have been made. For some of the details on the funding, I can ask the deputy minister to provide that. Thank you.

Yes, I believe that Fort Providence actually has an application in. We supported a project in Deline. And we do prioritize small communities, understanding that it's generally small communities who really lack the infrastructure. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. To your left, we have Sam Shannon, assistant deputy minister of corporate services; and to your right, John MacDonald, deputy minister. Thank you.

Thank you. And so we work with the Indigenous governments. That's who our partners are on this. The mentors receive the starting compensation rate is $25 an hour, and the apprentices receive $20 an hour. Thank you.

Thank you. So I believe the arts council just overspent that year by 10,000. Perhaps I can ask Mr. Shannon for some more detail on that. Thank you.