Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to say that the Northwest Territories managed to get on the front page of the Globe and Mail. However, as normal, the Northwest Territories on the front page of the Globe and Mail, I believe it was yesterday's issue, Mr. Speaker, is not about what the Northwest Territories is about, it is about Greenpeace and animal rights movement's views of the Northwest Territories on how we harvest our wildlife.

For thousands and thousands of years, Mr. Speaker, the people I represent had harvested wildlife in the Northwest Territories and they did it properly and with the greatest of respect. Our fur industry in the Northwest Territories is working hard to come back. I have said many times before in this House how good Fort Resolution is doing, one of my communities, since we put in a revolving fur fund. My community came from 20 active trappers to more than 80. We are the highest fur producers in the Northwest Territories with the best quality of fur, and I am proud to say.

Also in conjunction with that, we see very clear that our social services rolls fell down from close to 300,000 a year being put into my community, down to about 60,000 or 70,000. This is a positive thing. We have all lived through Greenpeace and their meddling in Aboriginal Affairs before. We have all buried our young people because of Greenpeace's meddling in our business in the Northwest Territories. We have very little respect for these tree huggers from southern Canada who do not understand the reality of living in the Northwest Territories. They do not understand the reality of our young people in the Northwest Territories who go out and harvest to generate some dollars for the people in their community and for their family. When Greenpeace was successful in killing the sealing industry, our suicide rates doubled and tripled in some of our communities, that is what they did. They are so interested in protecting animals. They have no thinking at all for the aboriginal people of the Northwest Territories. Mr. Speaker, our government is one of the best governments in Canada and in the world in managing our resources, we know how to manage it. We do not need someone to tell us how to do that.

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With that, I would just like to hope all my wolf hunters in Lutselk'e the best of luck, so they can bring some dollars into their communities.

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