Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will make this as brief as I can. It is good to see the reference to a broad energy strategy, that the Minister mentioned in his comments, and hydro potential. I am also interested at some point in the budget as we get to talk about secondary diamond development, hopefully outside Yellowknife. I am interested to see the progress on the consolidating of the lending agencies and support agencies for business and the work that is going on and, of course, the business incentive program.
At the appropriate time in the budget, I would like to discuss with the Minister what I think is a very carefully crafted letter about the regional funding transfers that lays out the money that was transferred from regions to headquarters to deal with the critical expenditures that were identified.
Mr. Chairman, as the Minister indicated, this is a very important department. The area of tourism in the constituency of Thebacha is one of growing interest and one that I would like to, regardless of the eventual fate of the hotel tax, work with the Minister and his department to try to move along.
I do not have a lot of big issues in this department. A lot of them are positive issues. I would just like clarification and some discussion. I think they have a lot of work before them, as the Minister said, and an ambitious agenda. Thank you.