Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Minister had indicated earlier in question period that he has been consulting. I can tell the Minister that I have also been consulting. I have had a couple of lunches and other phone calls and I have been talking to the hoteliers over the weekend. One of the major hotel operators in town told me that he is really suffering.

There is a high occupancy rate during the winter, but not in the summertime. He is having a hard time charging the rooms at the rate that he usually has, and five percent extra on it will be a very negative factor.

I also talked to a motel operator who told me that four years ago, he was able to fill his rooms with exploration, but not anymore. I have talked to a bed and breakfast operator who told me that if this tax was instituted, she will have no choice but to shut it down because she said that this would be nothing but a harassment to small business.

From talking to these operators, the only light in this whole thing is that they might buy into it if they could see a tourism strategy that they could relate to. A strategy that had a common vision and an implementation plan about where we are going with this tourism strategy. The thing is, Mr. Chairman, we do not have a strategy. I know that the department has a draft copy that is floating around. However, I believe the Minister did not think that was good enough, because he was addressing too many priorities.

My question is, we just had a tabling of the Economic Panel Strategy, which took no less then three years. The Transportation Strategy took as long, as did any strategy of that magnitude or that is worth anything. That strategy has to have a buy-in, and in order to have a buy-in, there has to be participation by the stakeholders.

Could the Minister explain how he is going to be able to come up with a tourism strategy that would have a clear vision of where it is that the Northwest Territories is going with respect to tourism? How is it that he is going to be able to do it in the next six months, with the understanding that most people take the summers off and we have a Christmas month and so on. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.