Thank you. One more question on the field operations. I have asked this question several times before, a couple of years ago and last year, but I haven't really received any answer yet. However, through someone else, the renewable resources officer was asked by the HTA member, if Coral Harbour organizes a hunt to fly to -- the only way to get to Repulse Bay, by the way, is flying -- Repulse Bay to hunt narwhal in Aqiarurnak Bay -- unless Mr. Todd would like to build us an access road there; just a hint. Mr. Chairman, however, he advised the HTA member that, no, you cannot hunt your quota from other communities. That was his answer. However, the Repulse Bay community and Coral Harbour have the same area for narwhal. Repulse Bay now goes to Aqiarurnak Bay to hunt narwhal, where Aqiarurnak Bay is in the Coral Harbour area, so they have the same hunting area, and of course we cannot go by boat because of the ice on the Hall Beach side or the east side. And the west side is so shallow that it is awfully dangerous to travel on. It takes about a week to go through there. Can the Minister tell me, why is the policy or regulation stated in such a way that it is restrictive? I mean, you give Coral Harbour a quota, but you are not allowing them access to that quota by preventing them hunting from other communities, where Repulse Bay already completely welcomed them to go through their community.
James Arvaluk on Tabled Document 34-12(5): Tradition And Change, A Strategy For Renewable Resource Development In The Nwt, February 1994
In the Legislative Assembly on March 28th, 1994. See this statement in context.
Tabled Document 34-12(5): Tradition And Change, A Strategy For Renewable Resource Development In The Nwt, February 1994
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 27th, 1994
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James Arvaluk Aivilik
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