Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I understand that it could be a problem in the open country, like the western Arctic, where you have access to anywhere where there is a road. But a remote island, like Coral Harbour, you probably can put to a specific program that it is unlikely that poachers will be flying in to start collecting... I appreciate what you are getting at, but regarding this, even if it is illegal, wherever they want to, they could fly in their helicopters and take gall bladders from polar bears from the moving ice. They could do that right now. Is this kind of question being placed so that a maximum amount of return can be had from what Mr. Ng is asking? If you have a quota on that island for the hunters with a tag, can you not make it a miniature tag or some kind of idea that, instead of wasting what could be valuable to the hunter, because hunters don't get very much, if you could help if you do it properly instead of outright banning it? Is it out of the question? Can it be discussed along that line, what is possible, controversial and what can be arranged if we do it properly or carefully?
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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