Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the legislative process, we have a species at risk legislation that is going through the system right now. The bison is one of the species listed as a species at risk, so the legislation, once it gets through, would have provisions in there on how to deal with this issue. At the present time, we do not have any type of legislation on how to deal with this issue. I think there are about five herds that are trying to increase in the North through this species at risk program that we are involved with throughout Canada.
At this point in time, if it is causing a nuisance and causing a problem, I know that the renewable resource officers, in some instances, have been instructed to destroy some of the buffalo. I know in Nahanni Butte, there were incidents earlier on when there were some problems with some buffalo that were causing a lot of danger there and they were destroyed. In this instance, there are areas, I guess that is the extreme case, but that could be one of the options that might be up there, but I have to be careful on how I phrase this and I have to really talk to my officials who are experts in this area on how to deal with this issue. Thank you.