Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Minister makes a really good point about the value of forests to so many aspects of life up here. The forest and the land really define to a great extent who we are and what we are. So I want to underscore that. If I could make a point though, to do a little bit of sparring here, Mr. Chairman, there is an additional almost $27 million in the forest area devoted to forest fire protection and the money I was looking at is just in forest management. So we are already putting a lot of money into protecting the forest that was not part of my calculation, but I don't want to get into a statistical sparring match.

In the tourism industry, we are on the verge of something, yet another surge, another big build-up in tourism volumes, at least in this region of the NWT, and I am looking at two things that are going to happen. In a couple of years, the old Yellowknife highway, Highway No. 3, that piece of road that we have come to love and hate, is going to be totally rebuilt and paved. That 50-kilometre barrier to an enormous stream of rubber tire traffic is going to be opened up. In the space of four years, we are going to have the Mackenzie River bridge, if all goes well. Again, another barrier removed to road traffic coming into not only Yellowknife and the North Slave, but there will be spin-offs to communities in the South Slave as well. I wanted to ask in the tourism industry whether the department has been looking at these two developments in our transportation system and the impact they are going to have on the region and on the South Mackenzie as a whole and looked at that in terms of any strategies or investments or new marketing opportunities? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.