Mr. Chairman, we have a number of initiatives that fall under our responsibility in the NWT Arts Strategy. Our complement in the department is about two positions, with expenses. It's a couple hundred thousand dollar range plus for the investment on staff. The first initiative we have undertaken is the first one is to develop an e-commerce networking database system. We did launch the NWT arts and fine crafts database supporting web pages. We have somebody in the department responsible for monitoring that. We undertook a number of consultations. We conducted a number of e-commerce workshops in each of the regions and that has been fairly successful. The idea is to have a point of contact for our artisans. Specifically, Member Groenewegen in fact has pointed out how difficult it is to buy arts and crafts in the Northwest Territories and you really have to know where to look. We are trying to change that. We are trying to make it easier for people to buy arts and crafts.
The next thing we have been working on is the NWT arts branding logo. The first phase is completed. The deputy minister steering committee, through our Visual Identity Program, approved the branding logo last fall. Cabinet looked at that about a month later and approved the logo. So that will be rolling out.
We are looking forward to having that tag go with our arts and crafts that we can brand NWT arts and crafts and people will recognize that that was made in the NWT. So those were two of the key initiatives, Mr. Chairman, that we have undertaken. Of course, we are also, as Members are aware, involved in working with the Canada Winter Games artist participation and developing the program there, which we hope can carry on from the Canada Winter Games. Members have made the point that we need to build towards the Olympics. We would agree. We think there is a lot of work that can be done with the other jurisdictions that go beyond just the Canada Winter
games, but that was certainly a good start. I have scheduled to have further meetings with my respective colleagues and tourism counterparts to talk about how we can jointly market the North and promote our arts and craft sector. Thank you.