Thank you. Wow, I have the floor. Thank you very much. We can't ask questions. I had my hand up to ask questions when it was still being called as an item on the paper, but I guess we went to the motion instead. Anyway, I have questions that nobody is going to answer, but let me ask them anyway.
If we can have all the details in half an hour, why couldn't we have it when...I am yelling in my own ear here. Why couldn't we have had it in the last three days if we could have them in a half an hour? If we only have to wait half an hour to get the answers to the questions, I say we wait for half an hour to get the answers. I don't think this is a $100,000 trip, for everyone's information. This is a $200,000 trip. I think there is another $100,000 coming from somewhere. I would like to put that in a question, but I will put it in a statement. I think this is a $200,000 trip. Furthermore, how did you select the people who are going? Of course, I am all for tourism and I am all for aurora viewing and I am all for NTCL, the shipping from Asia. I am a supporter of all that stuff.
I went on a trade mission once to Germany. The government paid for translation, they paid for some of the logistics and that, but operators all had an equal chance to participate by contributing to the cost, it was a cost-shared thing. Then more people got to go. I don't have any sense -- because I haven't had a chance to check this out -- but there might have been other tourist operators in the Northwest Territories involved in lodges and outfitting and aurora viewing who might have been interested in doing this. How was this particular group, and this group only, selected to go on a $200,000 trip to China? Why are we doing this now? There have been years of preparation go into this. Why aren't we doing this in the new government? Why are we rushing off now during election period when people like the chair of the Governance and Economic Development committee can't go? Even the MLAs might be interested in this particular thing. They might have constituents involved in activities who might want to go. I am not a big international traveler myself personally, but that doesn't mean there aren't other Members of the Assembly who might have wanted to attend this.
Anyway, $200,000 is a lot of money and somebody pointed it out the other day in committee that there are other NGOs struggling here. Mr. McLeod mentioned a few in Inuvik that were short of funds. Think of $200,000 and we can't even get information. Anyway, I think we should get information. Call a break, postpone. Thank you. No.