Mr. Speaker, the purpose of the review is to try to ensure that our trappers are getting the maximum price possible for their fur. The department, for the last few years, has been selling northern fur where trappers agreed to participate in a program through a firm in Montreal who sold it as genuine Mackenzie Valley fur. We are looking at that program to see whether we are getting the prices we need.

We are also subsidizing and working very closely with a number of subsidiaries of the Northwest Territories Development Corporation, who are in the business of trying to make value-added products from northern fur. We hope that will also provide a market. There are a number of initiatives going on there. The main one is with D'Arcy Moses, but also in the Aklavik and Tuktoyaktuk areas as well.

Mr. Speaker, in terms of when do we complete it, I can certainly give the Member a progress report of what we have done but I think this is an ongoing exercise that will continue. This past year has been a particularly busy one because of the need to review how we were selling fur through the Montreal firm. Thank you.