Agreed.
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Economic Development Agreement
Debates of May 13th, 1996
This is page numbers 297 - 329 of the Hansard for the 13th Assembly, 3rd Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was development.
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The Chair Vince Steen
Page 13-20, economic development agreement, operations and maintenance, total operations and maintenance, $650,000. Agreed?
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Agreed.
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Finance And Administration
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The Chair Vince Steen
Finance and administration, operations and maintenance, total operations and maintenance, $1.525 million.
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Agreed.
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Tourism Development And Marketing
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Tourism development and marketing, operations and maintenance, total operations and maintenance, $2.907 million.
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Agreed.
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
My question is with respect to the Explorers' Guide. Mr. Chairman, is Nunavut going to produce its own Explorers' Guide and is the West also going to produce an Explorers' Guide?
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Doan
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Explorers' Guide has been used historically to address enquiries being generated by the marketing campaign, and that is one of the programs that has been transferred to the two new tourism organizations. My understanding is that Nunavut Tourism will be producing a document similar in intent to the Explorers' Guide, and that the Western Arctic tourism organization will similarly be producing a guide to the Western Arctic for mail-out to return marketing enquiries.
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
I have a question with respect to the Yellowknife Visitors' Centre. I wonder if I could be apprised
if that problem of funding for the Yellowknife Visitors' Centre has been resolved.
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Doan
Yes, Mr. Chairman. For the current fiscal year, the department has provided assistance to the Northern Frontier Visitors' Association. The financial problem experienced there has been dealt with. A committee has been set up which involves the city of Yellowknife, the department and the Northern Frontier Association. We will be meeting throughout the year and developing a plan for future years.
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Western Caucus has been promoting a name-the-Western-Territory contest. Should the people decide that the new Western Territory should have a new name, how would this affect the tourism industry in the West?
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Stephen Kakfwi Sahtu
Mr. Chairman, we were quite interested in the Angus Reid poll that was done recently in the northwestern United States that indicated that, of the general population surveyed, less than one per cent of the people there knew where the Northwest Territories was or even that there was such as place as the Northwest Territories. I think it's well known that most Americans do not know where Canada is, and a good percentage of them also don't know what or where it is. So it appears, based on that survey as one example, that the name is not catching. The name "Northwest Territories" has been a handle that most of us have had since 1870 and it hasn't caught on yet, so perhaps we should look for a better label to market ourselves with.
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Have we developed a plan yet to market a new name, if we do change the name?
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Stephen Kakfwi Sahtu
Mr. Chairman, there is no plan at this time. As you know, the priorities are to make sure that this department's budget goes through the Legislature, that we throw our priority into the plans for amalgamation and, in June, we will be starting a whole new business plan for next year's budget. Because the suggestion of a name change for a remnant Northwest Territories is an issue, I think we will be providing some advice and observations to the public to ensure that people do not -- unless it is based on some substance and fact -- suggest that the name "Northwest Territories" is a good element of our tourism strategy. If, in fact, it doesn't make any difference, we will make that observation. Thank you.
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, my question for the Minister is how is the contract for the publishing, typesetting and production of the Explorers' Guide let.