Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I met last evening with the interim board of the Nunavut Travel Authority. The discussions and negotiations are progressing well as to trying to reach an arrangement with the three regions -- the Keewatin, the Kitikmeot, and the Baffin -- as to how a new authority would ultimately be represented; where the location of the office would be; the distribution of funding, et cetera.
The current interim chairperson of the Nunavut Travel Authority is Tracy Beeman who operates out of the Baffin region, the current interim executive director is Colleen Dupuis who currently runs the Baffin Regional Tourism Association and the interim board is made up of people recommended to me by industry for different sectors: hunting and fishing, adventure, et cetera.
There is one government representative on that who is Mr. Graeme Dargo and I've suggested, fairly aggressively, to the interim Nunavut Travel Authority board that all these arrangements have to be concluded by November 1st. Then they will determine an appropriate method to elect the board, decide where the office will be and how to distribute the funding, et cetera. Thank you.