Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks, Mr. Flaherty and your staff, for being here this afternoon.
Coming from the interior of British Columbia, from the riding of Kelowna--Lake Country, we have a good balance of young entrepreneurs. There's a cross-section of progressive seniors who are moving to the interior for the weather, and those in their retirement years who appreciate the pension-splitting.
We have different areas working within our community. Obviously we have the wine industry, we have a forest sector, and post-secondary. A big area is tourism, the hospitality industry. I had Minister Ritz out to the riding last month. We had a good meeting with some of the folks, a cross-section from the chamber and the tourism community. We talked about the visitor rebate program that had been eliminated.
Maybe you could expand on how the new foreign convention and tour incentive program will help British Columbian and Canadian businesses welcome tourists from around the world to Canada.