Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My colleague knows there were some problems with the tannery in Broughton Island. I think it was environmental concerns and serious ones. We are addressing those. Hopefully, we will solve those problems very soon. We did put a small micro-tannery into the community of Whale Cove. It was done for under $50,000 because we managed to find an old building. There is some development taking place in the west in North Slave. There has been some review done with respect to the
possibility of a tannery in the Inuvik area because of the muskrats and the fur there. I am a strong proponent of trying to get greater utilization out of resources that, historically, we have only used for domestic consumption. I think, provided we do these things carefully, that they are environmentally sound, we can increase the dollars or the economic components to our renewable resources. It is a priority of the department. It is part and parcel of what we are doing, for example, with the caribou in the meat processing plants. We are trying to utilize the skins.
I have said it many times, if you look back, historically, we only got one hit with the caribou. It was used for domestic consumption by hunters and people in the communities. Now we are getting four. We are paying the hunter for shooting the caribou, we process it in a plant, we take the skin and put it in a tanner, then we take the tanned skin and put it in an arts and crafts facility. That is four hits that we haven't had before. It is part of an integrated plan to get greater utilization of a renewable resource. It is a priority. But we have to be extremely careful that we do this in an environmentally sound way.