Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister responsible for Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development. It is with regard to the statement I read out today, but also I am more interested in the different programs this department delivers with regard to the trap replacement program and the fur pricing program.
We have a training initiative with the Aklavik Fur Shop, which is in my riding and has now been shut down. There was a trapper diploma training program that, along with the Department of Education and Aurora College, trained people to work within the different fur shops and what not that we have in the North. Mr. Speaker, with that, I would like to ask the Minister on the different programs, especially in the area of the trap replacement program. A number of years ago there was a program in place to assist trappers. With the humane trapping argument from Europe, we had to find a humane means of trapping. I would like to ask the Minister: how many traps have been replaced to date, the leghold trap with the new, more humane traps?