Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will have to get my running shoes on to keep up.
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Here they are right here. I will keep them handy.
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Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. They are brand new!
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Mr. Chairman, tourism has a very strong potential for advancement in this city here, fuelled by some very good investment by the private sector in hotel and accommodation facilities. In the convention and meeting industry, we have several hundred hotel rooms here now. Yellowknife has hosted, quite successfully, a couple of major national meetings for hundreds of delegates, but we have done so on an ad hoc basis, Mr. Chairman. Many other communities of our size and lure, I would say, have gotten an organized strategic initiative going to attract conventions and meetings.
I know that our government has been involved, along with our city, the private sector, the territorial and federal government, over a number of years in a number of different ways. I am wondering if the Minister could advise, from our point of view, what is the status of getting a standalone convention and meeting bureau up and running at least for Yellowknife, if not the Northwest Territories, Mr. Chairman?