Mr. Speaker, I have been encouraging the Department of Renewable Resources to use its expertise with regard to hunters and the Hunters' and Trappers' Association to develop a definition of a person principally engaged in hunting that is much more simplified, and would apply much more broadly to the average person who is dependent on hunting for their livelihood.

Mr. Speaker, I believe that great progress has been made in developing an approved definition, and, as I said earlier to the honourable Member, the new program can be funded within existing resources, provided the level of assessed income is not necessarily the same for a person working in the industrial wage economy.

I can only assure the Member that I can understand what he is getting at, I agree the definition is restrictive, it is overdue for change, a paper is about to come forward, and it may require an amendment to the Workers' Compensation Board Act. What I would request of honourable Members in this Assembly, is that if such an amendment appears to be required to make the definition fit the new scheme, that is well on the way to completion, as being developed by Renewable Resources, I would ask that we have the cooperation of honourable Members to secure speedy passage of that amendment if it turns out to be required. Thank you.