Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We will ask for a briefing from the department on this specific instance. Members should know that, in cases like this, we respect the local hunters and trappers or the community itself to manage and make decisions on the allocation of tags. We have given in to allowing the HTAs to make those decisions. In this case, they had probably gone along since it is just a selection from a hat. It is kind of difficult to argue with the selection. If Members felt that other members of the community should have a chance, in the case of Mr. Arvaluk, I have no idea why or on what basis the decision was made. We, as a department, are going with the way that the HTA makes a decision.
Stephen Kakfwi 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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