Thank you, Madam Speaker. I think there might be a difference of view about the right to hunt and harvest wildlife. It had always been my understanding, and it is the understanding of most of the Inuit, that no one has the right unless there are enough animals. I have heard that there is an aboriginal right in this area. I don't think that has been pursued by the Inuit. It's a privilege, rather than a right for them. It might be different in the draft form of the law or the agreement, but it is basically the understanding of the Inuit that they have a privilege, rather than a right.
My question is, Mr. Chairman, because of that understanding, it has been practised in the past that I, as an Inuk living in Pond Inlet -- where there are 22 tags for polar bears and I don't know how many muskox and 100 narwhals -- don't have the right to harvest unless I have a tag. And, in order to get a tag, I need a general hunting licence. If I don't have a general hunting licence, then I don't have the right to harvest them. Does that regulation apply to bison, because you need a tag to harvest bison in this area? Thank you.