Thank you, Mr. Chair. I agree with all the comments made. Looking back, and I also appreciate this was a very delicate subject with many involved and opinioned by other stakeholders and the public, but when I come back to my conclusion as an individual and the riding I represent -- who, by the way do not have a road and all-weather roads -- so it’s either fly-in or drive-in for portions of the season, or take a long boat ride. We rely heavily on air travel.
I’m taking that into consideration as well as my colleagues on the high cost of living. I look at the discussions we had. I got to fly home, so I go through the building. I look at the building, talk to some of my associate previous-life work colleagues down South and talking with them, gathering their suggestions, their opinions, and relating that to the economics of the improvement fee. I see a lot of value going to this community, the workforce, the permanent workforce that is going to be created.
Looking at this government’s budget, continuously it has always been the same neighbourhood amount that we’ve been operating on for the last 10 Assemblies. The fee itself, combined with the revenue it’s going to generate, will go towards reducing a subsidized aspect of this government and improve services which are needed, expansion of the parking lot, and establish a showcase as a capital should to attract outside visitors.
The economic benefits also include improvement construction jobs. I look at the tourism potential of our remote pristine area in central Mackenzie, and I also take into account if the traffic could make their way to the destination out here. We’ve got destination Deline to attract those individuals to the next largest pristine lake in the Northwest Territories. Who’s to say, we may even see 10 per cent of that traffic going to that neighbouring lake two Assemblies from now. So the vision of prosperity could be assumed in two-fold.
After analyzing the only reasonable carrier that we have in our area, the businesspeople, friends who I associate with down South who travel up here -- here in the committee, and some in my area -- I come to the conclusion on speculation that I think what we can only assume is going to be addressed in a pro forma business case. At the end of the day, my conclusion and I’ll say it for the record -- and that’s me only -- I’ll be supporting Bill No. 7. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’ll leave half the time.