Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have to say that I do not support the bill. I have talked with my leaders in my communities. They gave me the option of supporting it or not supporting it. They left it up to me. I have also talked to the elders. The elders say that there is a process happening right now. Two of my communities have seen the group that came into town. They have talked to them and they have told them what they wanted.

The people out there want the process to go ahead and the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development to go as fast as they can in making this process go ahead and finalize it and make the amendments to the act if there are going to be any changes.

Also, from personal experience, I can tell you that there are more hunters out there. Maybe the people in the larger centres do not see that because they do not hunt anymore. I have to say that just from experience alone, just last weekend I went to go out and get some firewood. I saw hunters almost every kilometre on the road towards Providence. They could be out there hunting bison, moose, woodland caribou, I am not sure but they were there.

Just counting the 290 people that Mr. Dent has in his report here, if you put 290 people between here and Rae, you would have about three hunters per kilometre, never mind the ones that already have GHLs. Now you put that on the Ingraham Trail, how many would that get you? Over a thousand people on the weekend hunting out there.

Just counting that, I cannot support that. As for the person in Inuvik that had to go to Newfoundland to get moose meat, that guy is making too much money. To top it off, it is illegal to haul meat across the border. That is all I have to add to it, Mr. Chairman.