(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Minister of Justice said in his statement about the new legislation on firearms, this will impose a lot of difficulties in the north because we are unique in the Northwest Territories. If we misuse the firearms or if we fail to register them, they will be able to put us in jail even though we didn't commit an actual crime. This will have a big effect on the residents of the Northwest Territories.
We don't use firearms to injure or kill other people, and a lot of times we have to have different rifles. If this legislation goes through then we will have to have only one gun. But the animals, the wildlife that we hunt, are different sizes and we use different rifles accordingly, as he mentioned. If this legislation is going to go through, as my colleague from Iqaluit said, they are going to have to put up a lot of new correctional centres because, if this goes through, it is very clear that they will have to send us to jail. And as we know now, the correctional centres in the NWT are often full. I think there should be an exception in that legislation that will apply to the residents of the Northwest Territories. They are going to have to treat us uniquely, because we don't use firearms on other people, we use them for our livelihood. Our ancestors worked really hard so they could provide us with food. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.