Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In this area specifically, I am referring to the hotel room tax as much discussion has happened with NWT Arctic Tourism, the department and Members, and information has gone back and forth. There was a letter that was provided to NWTAT of $375,000.
I would like to get a commitment from the Minister at this time that that would remain there and that we would continue to work to try to find other sources of revenue, whether it be through go-wide initiatives of looking from within, or looking at possibilities of other revenue sources however they may come about. Hopefully, we will get that confirmation from the Minister.
I was speaking to the president of NWT Arctic Tourism, Mr. Lafferty, and he informed me that he has been in contact with yourself and the department regarding a number of situations and cases trying to secure other funding or ways of working together from within the department with the NWT Tourism Association. The area that came up was, right now within the department there are a couple of vacant positions, there are some changes occurring within the tourism sector of the department. I would like to know at this time if there is any opportunity for the department to work with the NWT Arctic Tourism Association to work along or second those positions to them, so that we can get a tighter working group. Thank you.