Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Industry.
During his trip to Vancouver, the Prime Minister announced his government's strategy on tourism. Using the excuse of a need to co-ordinate the activities of all stakeholders in this area, the federal government is preparing to interfere once again in a field already well under provincial jurisdiction.
Does the minister not realize that by creating a Canadian commission on tourism with the mandate of promoting, within Canada and abroad, our country as a tourist destination, he is creating a new source of costly overlap?