Thank you, Madam Chair. Perhaps trying not to rehash the entire debate about the tourism act and whether it has accomplished its goals. I think the problem with going to NWT tourism is that part of the reason we brought the tourism act in was to get a lot of people licensed who weren't licensed. I know that's still a problem. I have constituents who run tourism operating businesses who are not licensed and probably don't want to go talk to ITI. As part of that view there, can the Minister look to how we are bringing people into the licensing scheme? Charging them $500 doesn't help. s I will just leave that as a comment.
We wouldn't be complete for tourism and parks unless I talked about the opening of the campgrounds. Madam Chair, every single year, I go down to Kakisa, and I go fly fishing. Every single year, someone cuts the gate and goes camping there, or they run through the creek to go camping there. There is an insatiable demand to go camping earlier that people are cutting gates. I know we can't open the parks because we have to hire some people, but there are certain campgrounds in this territory that people camp at regardless. The way that I view this is that there are certain kinds of, I think they're operated by ITI, if you took Hidden Lake Territorial Park, these giant parks where people camp. They camp all year-round. They go to them. There are roadside pullouts, some of which are parks operated by ITI, that aren't necessarily campgrounds, but people camp at them. Is that something the department allows? Is there a way to create some of these campgrounds that allow people to go in and pull in regardless of the actual registered fixed season? Thank you, Madam Chair.