—the so-called hub and spoke—

I remain strongly committed to my position that the hub-and-spoke model is ideal for Saskatchewan, as it balances all the primary criteria as outlined in section 15 of the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act.

While these boundaries are often described as a mixture of rural and urban, I actually think the term “spoke and hub” would be a better description, because in fact the city of Saskatoon and the ridings around there are not predominantly urban under this new drawing.

In Yorkton—Melville, both urban and rural communities work well together, as they do elsewhere in the province. The hub-and-spoke system continues to be an effective electoral model in our province, one that we should keep.

Tourism Number of applications to funding Percentage of SMEs (and trend) in applications for tourism-related funding opportunities Number of entities adopting European Tourism Quality Label Number of destinations adopting the sustainable tourism development models promoted by the European Destinations of Excellence || Number of applications to funding (to all calls for proposals) in total: around 75 per year (average for 2011) Up to date, no calls for proposals were directly addressed to SMEs Up to date no entity adopting European Tourism Quality Label (action in elaboration) Number of European Destinations of Excellence awarded in total ...[+++] 98 (on average 20 per year – in 2007-10, in 2008-20, in 2009-22, in 2010-25, in 2011-21) || Number of applications to funding (to all calls for proposals) in total: more than 100 per year 30% of calls for proposals directly addressed to SMEs Coverage of 50% of the evaluation schemes eligible to participate in the European Tourism Quality Label 200 and more destinations adopting the sustainable tourism development models promoted by the European Destinations of Excellence (up to 30 per year).

Furthermore, where certain network elements are shared for the purposes of supplying origination and termination services, such as cell sites or Base Transceiver Stations (BTS), these network elements will be included in the termination cost model to the extent that they are needed because of the additional capacity necessary to carry terminating traffic by third parties.