Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate that this can be looked at. But we are being told right now, before the wildlife management board is recognized or active, that Coral Harbour can go ahead and start killing about -- I don't know, perhaps the Minister knows about the figure better than I -- 2,000 to 4,000 animals and if they don't start doing that, the same incident is going to occur that has occurred in Coats Island a few years back. I don't know if they got sick, but most of them starved to death there because they over grazed the island.
It is not strange or unusual, and they've probably been doing that for thousands and thousands of years. But we, who became landlords of the whole globe, don't want to see that happen because we should be able to manage the population by changing the old methods, and by providing animals for commercial products.
I understand there were 500 caribou harvested for commercial use in Rae-Edzo not too long ago. This population is not in danger of overpopulation. I haven't heard that the caribou population was in danger of overpopulation. Whereas, in Coral Harbour, you have that problem. Why didn't the department say that this population is not in danger, but they are in another area, so why don't we try to do something about it and have the commercial hunt in that area?
I guess I'm not a very good politician, but I see common sense in controlling the population at the same time, where it is needed. My question under 2.6, Mr. Chairman, is why is this kind of conservation program to control possible overpopulation not in the principle of the strategy?