Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes. Yes, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Vanthuyne.

I appreciate that we're going to see this money indefinitely. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Vanthuyne. Mr. Testart.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Could I have more detail about the convention bureau, what's planned with that initiative? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Testart. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess I should clarify. MLA Vanthuyne said it would be indefinitely; I wouldn't go as far to say it will be indefinitely, it will go till 2018-19. The Convention Bureau works with regions and communities to determine their capacity, what capacity they have to host conventions, and we try to match up whatever interests there are for conventions in the Northwest Territories so that other communities besides Yellowknife also have opportunities and other regions also have the potential to host conventions. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Testart.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. For clarification, does the convention bureau also do work in Yellowknife or is it primarily focused on the communities? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Testart. Mr. Minister.

It does work on behalf of all the communities in the Northwest Territories, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Testart.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I noticed community tourism, infrastructure, remains at $100,000. Does the department have an inventory of the project that it supports and can it share what that money went towards in 2015-16? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Testart. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, we have that information and it's in our annual grants and contributions report and we can provide that information to the Member or I could read it out for him right now if that's what he wants. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. What's your wishes, Mr. Testart?

I can review the report, Mr. Chair, thank you. I note one of the complaints I guess or criticism of our otherwise spectacular and ever growing tourism market is there's not enough things to do in our communities. I think this contribution could bear a lot of fruit in developing our tourism market by having more attractions and drawing more people in. Has the department taken a look at how to use this funding to kind of produce more tourism draws in our communities and get more people coming?

For instance, just going back to the convention bureau, our convention space is rather limited; we don't have a convention centre in Yellowknife, for example, so it somewhat caps our ability to bring in large venues and national organizations who want to have their conventions here. Has the department taken a look at using this funding, or perhaps even increasing this funding to develop more capacity for tourism support in our communities? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Testart. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We provide $3.3 million to NWT Tourism, and we're always looking at ways to improve our program. If building community infrastructure-- sort of if you build it they will come, generally we take the approach of having tourism products developed. We have a large focus on Aboriginal tourism right now and certainly the community tourism infrastructure is fully subscribed as well. Whatever opportunities we have to increase our tourism products, we try to take advantage of that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Testart.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the Minister for his comments. Can I get the total amount that it's subscribed by in dollar figures, if the department has that handy? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Testart. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We'd have to dig that up. We just have the actual that was awarded for 2014-15 right now. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sorry, there was-- we provided $225,000 in 2014-15. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Testart.