Thank you, Madam Chair. I am always happy to see parks infrastructure, and I'd like to thank all of the work that our parks group does. Getting the season open and extending it this year was great work. What I'd like to see long-term, though, is extending the season into some sort of winter camping option. If you go pretty much any direction in Yellowknife, you hit tent frames all over the place. They're on the sub-islands. They're up the Ingraham Trail. I know the Department of Lands has a strategy coming to remove quite a lot of those tent frames because they are unauthorized structures; hundreds, in fact, which is going to create a huge demand that we simply cannot fill. I think the Department of ITI has a role to play. If we can let people put their tent frames up in a winter park, whether that be Prelude or the North Arm or any of these other parks, they will do it. I recently visited Iqaluit and the territorial park there, you rent a tent pad for the year. You get to put your tent frame up, and it's a really great community experience. My question for the Minister is: are there any plans to implement a winter camping season? Thank you, Madam Chair.
Rylund Johnson on Committee Motion 39-19(2): Tabled Document 181-19(2): Capital Estimates 2021-2022 - Education, Culture and Employment - Deferral of Department (page 10), Carried
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Committee Motion 39-19(2): Tabled Document 181-19(2): Capital Estimates 2021-2022 - Education, Culture and Employment - Deferral of Department (page 10), Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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