Thank you, Mr. Chair. When I look at this particular department in the activities and the numbers written out there and allotted for different designations directed to tourism and parks operations, tour operators, and when I go back and look at the statement made by the same Minister here on November 2nd of last year, making reference to "between the year 2010-11 and 2015-16, the number of visitors to our territory has increased from 65,000 to 93,000 visitors; spending in this timeframe has also increased from $94.1 million to $167.1 million," I would say we are trying our best efforts, and that is a pretty good show on return.
The isolated region of the Sahtu wouldn't mind to get in on this glorified economy here, seeing that we have a number of attractions. Having a few hunters coming off the plane and coming back on the plane with their antlers, and a few paddlers down the Mackenzie River, is not going to cut it as far as contributing to tourism potential and sustaining some of the potential operators that do exist in that region, so therefore, when I look underneath budget allowances for community tourism infrastructure at $200,000, skills development, purchased services, I would like to work closely with this department on the allowances budget to look at producing results from the Deline destination brochure initiative that the Deline Got'ine Government has produced.
There are very similar attractions in Deline as there are here, so there is room for potential and room for that visitor market. In flight, it is only an hour and a half, an hour and 20 minutes from here, so there is some supported documentation to say that the Sahtu could realize this industry sector potential.
My only question is: what supports would these budgetary figures do for the Deline destination? Thank you, Mr. Chair.