Madam Chair, I am embarrassed to admit that I forgot what the question was because I love to talk about this. I had the pleasure of receiving a detailed, lengthy presentation, including all sorts of graphics, 3D things jumping out, all from Northwest Territories Tourism, who are our organization, marketing organization, here in the Northwest Territories. They have always traditionally done the bulk of the programming for tourism, and it is quite fantastic. I believe there is an outstanding offer for a similar briefing to committee to have all the same experiences of seeing 3D animals pop out that you can pet. I don't mean to make light of it. It really was quite stunning. There is a line of Northwest Territories stories that I think people were actually crying in the room when we were watching it, so it is phenomenal. I think they have, in fact, won international awards for it. They are still doing that. The programming is still happening. It's still out there. Obviously, we have directed some of the funding that would normally have gone to really pushing that back into the industry right now so that folks can stay alive so that they are ready when the time comes, when tourism restarts internationally as well as nationally. However, I really can't say enough, Madam Chair, about the phenomenal nature of the programs that they have and the marketing products that they have. It's just a question of kind of keeping the money where it can support those tourism operators now but then rolling that product out and catching what I hope is going to be a real wave of tourism coming back to the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caroline Wawzonek on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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