Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As you all know, the fur industry has built this country and also lined the pockets of the Europeans for hundreds of years. Yet, the fur industry in Europe is still a major problem to people in the North, especially the aboriginal people who have depended on the furs for thousands of years. Countries in Europe, like Holland, have passed motions to boycott furs from Canada. How do we allow Europeans to boycott our products and we do not do the same? As an example, the Royal Family in Holland owns Shell Oil; yet the government has contracts for fuel products with Shell Oil for people to run their vehicles and snowmobiles. The people who are trapping for furs are using this product, yet the same country that is selling us the product is boycotting our furs.

Fur products in Canada have been a wealthy industry for hundreds of years. I think it is time that government consider that we start fighting fire with fire and stand up for trappers, especially in the North, who depend on that industry. Thank you.

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