Thank you. I've had regular discussions with the president of the association before this issue and during and I'd certainly be interested in hearing how we do marketing assistance for a business that has to substantially reduce their operation. But anyway, I'll leave it at that because, you know, we've been going back and forth on that.
I just want to spend a last minute talking about the arts and crafts issue and under traditional economies I looked for a Minister's statement on how we could better improve the arts and crafts industry of the North. The Minister mentioned earlier about Member Groenewegen talking about how difficult it is to buy arts and crafts in communities and I was part of that discussion, too. We talked about that a year ago, but to this day you can't go to Aklavik and go down to Aklavik fur shop. In Fort Providence you go to the inn and you could ask to have access there. In Fort Simpson you have to chase around the guy to open the shop there; I've never been able to go in there. I think maybe the best crafts you can get are in Enterprise at Winnie's shop, but, you know, traffic, regular highway traffic. Over the last two or three weeks I've been watching the marketing campaign we have, Look Up North -- it's very impressive -- and I'm just wondering if the people who did decide to come up, why is it that with all the money we spend we can't, even those of us who can go to communities and want to buy things, can't. Yet, the paradoxical part of it is when we were in Simpson for the NWT Games, we had ladies coming up to us with their goods wanting to sell them to us. Everywhere we go, people want to sell them to us. Diamonds are good, oil and gas is good, great. Diversification of industry is so important. Website is not the biggest issue. I mean, we could sell things on e-Bay. What is the government doing? Where is the government going to make sure that in every community people could go and buy these crafts? Right now, we're getting into such exclusive markets that unless you get somebody custom making for you, we can't get jackets made or buy jackets or, I don't know. I'd like to ask the Minister about, in all of his work with the computer database and the people working in Yellowknife, PYs under the arts and crafts section, all the promotional campaigns, what improvement have we made as a government since last year, that we had the same discussion, about how we could support the arts and crafts makers to make their things and be able to sell them? Thank you.