Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We had made a commitment to revise the Wildlife Act. We have released two documents in November of 1999 to deal with the revision to the Wildlife Act itself, as well as to look at legislation to protect species at risk.

We have conducted consultation meetings and discussion throughout the regions to identify issues this proposed legislation should consider. We should have the first round of discussions and consultations concluded by the end of this month. We will take the information that is gathered through this phase and use that as a basis to put together a discussion paper, which will then be distributed to the public once we have this first phase completed. We will have a better idea of what type of discussion paper should be sent to the public, and that will give us some idea of what type of consultation we should have for beginning the drafting of the legislation. Thank you.