So, Minister, and Mr. Chair, that’s for all of the Northwest Territories, because we certainly heard it in the budget dialogue that we need revenue, and if you have revenue to do things that we want to do, that will certainly help us.
I just wanted to make a last pitch for the Aboriginal business people in the region, the ones that have the ma and pa type of tourism lodges. You know,
we want the best for them. They’ve put sweat and equity into that business and at times it’s quite expensive to bring people out to those lodges, but when they get out to those lodges they sure love the country. Even down here outside of Great Slave Lake, when they go to those lodges it’s beautiful country. Not a lot of people are going there because it’s quite expensive, no different up in the Sahtu region where there are a couple of lodges on the land that people who want to make a living or making their lifestyle, but it’s really expensive and they get the tourism few and far and between. So I want to make a pitch to ask the department however, through this government, to encourage the department and the people who go to those lodges, however they can do it, and that’s a big request to this department. I just want to make a pitch, come out and visit, take advantage of those lodges in and around the region there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.