I was involved in the negotiations with the federal government at the time, and as you heard earlier, we were satisfied with the terms and the stipulations, the rules that we were going to sign on with, but we had not signed the deal, as had none of the territories because we were not satisfied with the fiscal arrangements. What we would have received through that arrangement would have been $1.3 million a year. That's about the same amount as we added to our own source funding this year to early child care.
So we thought that the per capita distribution of funds was not appropriate given our unique circumstances in the north, and that's why we hadn't signed on to the deal.
In total we're going to get, for the two years that we're getting the funding, about $1.3 million. In terms of growth of spaces, over the past two years, we've seen a growth from about 1,500 to 1,700 spaces in the Northwest Territories. By and large, all of those spaces have been in regulated family day homes.