 Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe the member from Kassri's East Prime Minister in presenting the motion clearly articulated the intent and purposes of the Tourism Development Fund. Mr. Speaker, on February 20th when we met in this honorable house and we debated the new Tourism Development Bill, which has now been enacted, I presented to this honorable house the necessity for us to have the Tourism Development Fund and I went into some detail as to the role that it would play and the purposes for which it would have been created. So Mr. Speaker, I will not take a very long time. But before I proceed Mr. Speaker, I really have to say something I did not contribute on the earlier debate. But just for the information of this honorable house, once I listened to the member from Miku South speak about the IMF article for consultation report and he presented it as if the government had withheld the information and it had taken so long for the report to be made public that the consultation took place in August but it was only just released in March. And something just spiked my interest, you know the curiosity that one can have sometimes. And I said let me just find out in the past what happened under his watch because I was wondering is it unusual for it to be such a long period before which reports are released. And I decided let me just speak the 2019 report. You know, and I did a little research online. When was the 2019 report released? February 24th, 2020. February 24th, 2020. So I then researched when did the consultation take place. February 7th, 2019. One year after. Why would the consultation have taken place on February the 7th, 2019 but the report only made public February 2020. And you cannot say COVID. You cannot use COVID as an excuse. So why under you it took more than a year for the report to be made public. But in this instance you are presenting to St. Lucia and the world that something is untold. Something is unusual because it took a certain period of time for it to be released. So probably Mr. Speaker that he knows something that we don't know. This honesty you call it. And you know speaking on that subject again we have to come back Mr. Speaker to the conduct of the leader of the opposition. There he was writing all over the world. All over St. Lucia is writing letters to the Attorney General that we are going to bridge the Constitution. He wrote to the bar and said to the bar can you work with me? Can you work with me because they have no respect for the Constitution. They are going to bridge the Constitution and he threatened to go to court and all and have injunction against Parliament because we are going to bridge the Constitution. And I sat there wondering in which reality does he exist? Is this a case of Alice in Wonderland? Or Alan in Wonderland? What is this about? And then he decides and somebody told me he wrote to United Nations. He writes to everybody even write to former ambassadors or to ambassadors in St. Lucia. He wrote to ambassadors in St. Lucia that we are going to bridge the Constitution. Which Constitution? We don't bridge Constitution on this side of the house. Yeah, he wrote the script. For someone who spent five years never pointing at the Deputy Speaker. I think he has kind of post-traumatic stress syndrome. Why would you believe that every action somebody would take would be as nefarious as yours? Why? And he comes in this morning and he witnesses democracy in action. The member from View for South accepts to be the Deputy Speaker. Now he can say he anticipated that. So let's assume if you had anticipated that, why did you write all the letters? Why did you announce to the world? Is it a mind that is so warped? Why? Tell me. So you could not have anticipated that. But even if you had anticipated it, it reveals the worst side of you as a politician, as a former leader of this country. The worst side. But I heard the word rejoicing saying Kenyantini will never accept it. Does anybody believe that the member from View for South, the grandfather of the Labour Party right now, would act in a manner to undermine the St. Lucia Labour Party? They are taking joy, they say, when he stands up and he lectures us. He can lecture me any day. He has earned the right to do that. He's earned the right to do that. Just like Julian Hunt. So Julian Hunt can lecture me. So colleagues Georgetown lecture me. They have earned the right in our party. We respect our party leaders and the others in our party. That's the difference between us and them. So Dr. Antony, Dr. Antony is a man of integrity, a man of character. And he loves this Labour Party. Don't get involved in our business when he's lecturing us. If he ever stands up there. Many of us on his side have never had a better teacher than him. So if he took joy believing that we would be left, you know, we won't have a deputy speaker. He's going to go on. I heard they had injunction papers already prepared, ready to fight. You're going to take your documents and shred it. And shred it. Because you came here anticipating that there would be no deputy speaker and you'd be chaos. And you'd run to the courts and find an injunction. According to the Memo from Cassius, it's put the papers in your pipe and smoke it. So Mr. Speaker, the Tourism Development Fund is based on a fundamental principle in the Tourism Development Bill. And that is of billing resilience. The fund by its very nature will accumulate monies that can be used for the future development of the tourism industry. It will be used to ensure that the operations of the tourism department are met. It will be used as well, Mr. Speaker, to deal with issues that will arise, especially when we have challenges from natural disaster and other challenges in the industry. Look at what we just went through with COVID. We actually had no reserves to go to in this country to deal with some of the sectors that were affected. We believe in the building resilience in the industry. And by having a fund that has monies in it, when we do face a challenge, and God forbid we never have another COVID, but it may be some other challenge we face, we would have some resources available somewhere that the industry can use it for it to rebound. It will also assist us in maintaining infrastructure for the tourism industry. It will assist us in many other aspects in the operations of the tourism industry. So for us, it's a critical tool in achieving the principles and the dreams and the goals, the vision that we had when we passed the tourism development bill. It will take some time for the resources to build, but we now have the basis upon which we can build. And we must, Mr. Speaker, in all that we see, still credit the last government for having gotten the tourism levy going, and at least starting to create that dedicated stream of financing that we can use for marketing in this instance. And we're going to broaden that concept of having resources available to assist in the tourism industry. For us on this side, we want to transform the tourism industry. Some people said I should not continue spreading this narrative about more solutions owning the tourism industry. But we believe it on this side of the house. We believe that more solutions should be operating, more solutions should be owning the tourism industry. And during the estimates next week and in the policy debate, I will be seeing a lot more about what we are doing to ensure that the tourism industry, for us, it is an indigenization of the tourism industry, making sure indigenous initiative, indigenous effort can benefit from the tourism industry. And in many ways, you know, is ensuring that the political economy of the tourism industry is such that as many solutions as possible can benefit from the industry and can prosper within the tourism industry. So today, Mr. Speaker, it's a simple motion to start putting in place many of the elements of the tourism development bill to achieve that vision that we have of a more inclusive, a more resilient, and a more sustainable industry. And again, like I said, next week in the estimates, a lot more would be said on that. So I support the motion as presented by the member from Cassry's East. Thank you very much.