Thank you, Mr. Chair. There were two positions of which traditional knowledge is supposed to be one of the responsibilities of each of those positions. There is only one person in the department working on traditional knowledge. The other position is vacant. The intent is to look at the policy of traditional knowledge and see how we, as a department, can integrate traditional knowledge into the day-to-day business operations and the decision making, the mode of operation we have as a department. We also want to get

into advising other departments on how they can start to implement and enhance the government's policy on traditional knowledge. We are looking at ways in which we might be able to assist implementation of the recognition and use of traditional knowledge on a government-wide basis. Thank you.