Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the Member for the question. For the last couple of years we have been funding the NWT Tourism Association, an organization that is mandated to represent the operators and business sector of tourism, working in partnership with our department to advise the government and to take a direction on its own on where to take us in regard to promoting and developing the tourism sector of our economy. I had a meeting just last week with the board members of the tourism board and I have indicated that it is now time for them to start articulating what it is they want done. What type of resources are required for the strategy or plan they may wish to propose to me as a Minister?

I have indicated to them that Members of the Legislature and community leaders are all interested in seeing what it is we want to propose as a tourism strategy and we require them to make some suggestion on what it is we should be doing and what type of resources are going to be required. To go further, suggest how these resources should be best allocated. What should be done at the territorial level? What should be done at the regional and community level?

Hopefully within the next two or three months, we will have a strategy and a plan that we can share with the Members, that will lead to perhaps looking at additional dollars if it comes through the federal new economic development agreement, if we reach that and we propose a new program to them on how we would use resources like that to promote and develop the tourism sector of our economy. Thank you.