Thank you, Madam Speaker. Many years ago, I lived very briefly in British Columbia before I came north. I read about the tremendous amount of trade that went on between Chinese people who came up after the California gold rush, settled in the middle part of British Columbia and bought a tremendous number of products from a group of people called the "Carrier people." An aboriginal tribe called the Carrier people who are very similar in language and custom to the Slavey people. One of the products was the gallbladders of bears. I'm pretty sure that that kind of commerce doesn't happen on our barrenlands, but I would like to ask the Minister, is there any evidence at all that of the 30-odd bears that were killed last year -- some of them by hunters, some of them by outfitters -- whether, in fact, there was any evidence that gallbladders -- because in these big bears they're pretty big gallbladders -- are being taken out for trade purposes.
Brian Lewis on Question 329-12(6): Decline In Barrenland Grizzly Bear Population
In the Legislative Assembly on November 3rd, 1994. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 329-12(6): Decline In Barrenland Grizzly Bear Population
Question 329-12(6): Decline In Barrenland Grizzly Bear Population
Item 6: Oral Questions
November 2nd, 1994
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Brian Lewis Yellowknife Centre
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