Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the Member's words, particularly the words of support for the department. It is a big department. It is diverse. It has a mandate that is tremendously important to a lot of people from a lot of perspectives. It is very much on people's minds.

Maybe just to mention an overall review. While I believe everything should be reviewed to make sure it is functioning and that it is effective, and is efficient as possible. I am not against that. The one thing that I will say about the department, though, is that it is a very busy department. There are not any days for any division where people can say that they have caught up with their work. They are going full tilt because of what is happening, whether you talk about the energy strategy, the tourism strategy, the need to coordinate and integrate some of the service we provide, better delivery out there, the demands and the need to be on schedule on oil and gas issues, and so on. It is a department that is driven very rapidly. Rather than, at this point, undertaking some kind of major review that would use up a lot of people's time, not just in the department but outside the department, we are better off to meet some of the more important targets we have to meet on a timely basis. Second, do the things that are most obviously not working as well as we would like them to work.

On the energy side, we are doing the greenhouse gas strategy. We are looking at some of the alternatives to fossil fuels and ways to possibly set up programs that are not going to bankrupt us but will enable us to do some innovative things in the use of solar heat, for example. We are working on some of those. I realize there is a need for a comprehensive energy strategy, but just in terms of time and demands, it is one thing I do not think we can take on right now. But we are working on pieces of it and as we get time I think these will come together into a good comprehensive strategy.

For tourism, we really have to look at the big picture. That, to me, is the big opportunity for a lot of small communities. They are not all going to have a pipeline, or a diamond mine, or a diamond-polishing facility. They all have a lot of tourism potential. We really have to look at the big picture here, not be stopped because you want to save five cents here or there. We have got to look at the big picture and make some critical investments right now, not just the government, but in partnership with the private sector. All of us, government and private sector, have to work together on this one. It is too important for all the communities, including the bigger ones like Yellowknife.

In terms of the other comments you made in regard to the overlap and possible confusion with the Northwest Territories Development Corporation, BCC, Community Futures, business development funds, all of those things, even our grants and contributions programs, we have set that as a priority for this year on how to integrate those and make them more efficient and more effective. We are undertaking that one. We need to do that one and we will do it. In terms of the broad economic picture, we have to keep that in mind, whether it is in forestry, or oil and gas, or in tourism, keep mind the need to have a diversified economy, the need to make sure that we are using northern products, that we are manufacturing, adding the value in the North. I guess all I can say is that I appreciate the Member's comments and certainly support them. I think we are heading in the direction he indicates. Thanks.