Thank you very much.
And thank you for being here today, and thank you to the committee for allowing me to sit in on this.
Thank you for clearing up the fact that my colleague, Mr. Brown, thought that Chaka Khan was one of the actual seven wonders of the world. I appreciate your clearing that up.
I too stood on Table Mountain this past year when I was at a CPA conference. I went up in the lift with Joe Preston, a colleague of ours. He's one of the great storytellers, and I'd encourage my Conservative colleagues to get that story from Joe about his trip up in the tram car.
You made the comment that this whole process has been beneficial regardless of the outcome. Certainly we want to see a positive outcome, but regardless of that, it has been of benefit because I think that in the east, we're notorious for trying to get as many tourists as possible on the ground there. We will fight over the tourists rather than trying to grow the pie. This seems to be a really positive opportunity to grow that pie.
You mentioned incidentally that you're seeing some benefit already in the numbers now. We're not seeing that. This past year has been desperate in Cape Breton. Typically at the fortress at Louisbourg we would see 160,000 to 180,000 visitors per year, and we're going to be lucky to hit 90,000 this year.
What would be the profile? Is it too early to give us an overview of the profile of the tourists and what their increased numbers will be? Where are they coming from and what type of tourists have you attracted with the excitement that's been generated through the campaign, and what are they doing when they're there? Where are they going and what are they doing?