Resource Committee — Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, the thing that I would say that would introduce you to my department best would be, that it is very diverse, as you can tell from the list of officials that I have with me, and the kind of areas that they represent. Our department deals with the tourism industry as a piece of the economic development of this Province; but, in addition to that, it also deals with our culture, with our heritage. It looks at preserving our culture. It looks at more than even preserving our culture, also cultivating our contemporary arts. When you look at our heritage from the natural heritage perspective, we are responsible for managing wildlife, inland fish resources. We also have responsibility for recreation, sport, and all of the issues associated with trying to promote active living in the Province. When you stop and think about it, we cover everything from parks to historic sites, Arts and Culture Centres, moose, fish, recreation centres, swimming pools and so on and so on, as well as some artifacts that are probably in the order of hundreds of thousands of years old. WITNESS: Three million. MS BETTNEY: Yes, in the order of 3 million artifacts. It is a very diverse, very interesting department. From the tourism perspective, it has been a significant economic generator that affects all parts of our Province, but I would have to say it affects the rural areas of our Province more so even than the urban areas. It has grown steadily over the past decade or so. Now, it represents a $600 million industry, half of which, $300 million of which, is really non-resident tourism. One of the big things that we undertook as a department last year was to do a marketing review to ensure that as we try and use our resources wisely to promote tourism, that we are doing the best job possible. We have completed that study now and are moving into the implementation phase. That is one of the things that is top on our list from the tou