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Hon. Neil Lumsden

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Hamilton East—Stoney Creek
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
  • Ontario
  • Unit 102 115 Hwy. 8   Stoney Creek, ON L8G 1C1
  • tel: 905-662-8755
  • fax: 905-662-0416
  • Neil.Lumsden@pc.ola.org

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  • Dec/5/23 10:30:00 a.m.

Mr. Speaker, thank you to the leader for the question. I got this feeling that the word “tourism” is a bad word. We’re talking about—now hang on for a second—tourism, which represents almost $36 billion in economic activity, just under 400,000 jobs and 82,000 business-related jobs and careers in tourism. Yet we talk about an opportunity, a destination—tourism is about finding a place to go, drawing people in, not just people in Ontario but the people across Canada and maybe into the United States. It’s driving tourism. A destination is important, whether it’s a spa, common areas, water parks, paddling, walking and being casual in an area where you can sit and be quiet—all these great things that tourists like. They want to come to. They want to come here. We’re making a world-class destination.

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