Thank you, Mr. Chair. Respectfully, I would beg to differ with Mr. Speaker. We are a tourism attraction. This building is one of the most magnificent legislatures in Canada. It is acknowledged. I know Mr. Speaker has heard that himself from his counterparts who just visited us a few weeks ago and marvelled at the beauty, the complexity, and the features of this building. I think that, to the tourism industries across the Northwest Territories, if we can send them a signal that we believe that we are part of this industry, at least in that we are an attraction through our building and our style of government, that would be a very welcome step, a good companion to what was just announced yesterday, increase investment on the part of our government. I would like to think, with modest cost, we can extend an extra welcome to the visitors to our land through some interpretation of this building and the job that we have here as part of the government of the people of the NWT.
I would very much welcome the Speaker's suggestion that we could work with the tourism industry officials here in the city of Yellowknife. I think they are very proactive, as well, to see just what would be appropriate, and design our service to meet that need and potentially in other
languages, Mr. Chair. Is there an adequate or large enough number, for instance, of German or Italian along with French and Japanese people coming to the Assembly to make it worth the while to talk to them?
I would leave this request, again, with the good offices of the Speaker to advance and see what we can do to enable us to be an even better part of the tourism industry in the North, Mr. Chair.