All right. I was not in the House when we were dealing with page 10-19, I was talking to a chief from Fort Simpson. We were discussing the trappers' incentive subsidy in the back room when you were dealing with it out here. In the Fort Simpson area, they want to have a meeting with the trappers to see how they can deal with this. Perhaps I could go back to page 10-19 on the trappers' incentive. Next fall, the way the trappers' incentive subsidy works, the department estimates how much a trapper made in a year and it gives them back a percentage for the following year to get them going in the fall. That is eventually recovered through the trapping season. With the trapping season being very poor this year, if trappers want to go back next fall, they are going to have a real problem because many of them did not make the kind of money they made over the last five years. There is discussion going on. They want to discuss this situation. One of the options they are looking at is proposing to the department to look at the last five years, average it out and give them an incentive based on that. This year's trapping was very poor. My cousin normally makes about $1,500 or $2,000 a year, and this year he made approximately $200. If you are going to give him a percentage of that it is going to be nothing, so you are going to have to base it on something. That is the direction of my questioning. Are you going to look at different ways of assisting trappers in the fall because of the trapping season being very poor this current year? If you could give me an answer to see how you are going to deal with it, I would appreciate that.
Jim Antoine on Bill 17: Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1993-94
In the Legislative Assembly on March 8th, 1993. See this statement in context.
Bill 17: Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1993-94
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 7th, 1993
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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