Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On the comments of the Minister, under partnerships, we seem to see a lot of the tourism activities are all on the larger communities, the larger centres. In my riding there is no tourism at all, except for one in Wha Ti, which has been ongoing, I think, since even this government was in existence. I would just like to say I think we need to put more emphasis on working with the smaller communities in the Northwest Territories, not only in my riding but in other ridings as well, to ensure a balance where we get into the wildlife...there was no mention of the Wildlife Act that is being reviewed right now.
I sort of have a concern because in my community, they sometimes want to go out and harvest some bison. There is a bison management board out there somewhere making rules and laws and saying who can shoot what and when and how. I saw a proposal of a new Bison Management Act. I do not know how you manage bison. You lasso them or you corral them or whatever, how you manage them. But they want to put a bison management board in place and there is no equity in it. They have 20 tags for Fort Providence and they are down to one in the Dogrib region. We do not see any quotas put in any groups when it comes to caribou hunting, muskox or anything, but when it comes to bison, some groups get more than others, which I do not think is fair. I think that should be looked at.
They are more of a nuisance on the highway. There are more highway road kills than there are tags out there, I guess. So maybe there should not be tags or maybe equally shared.
Also in harvesting is how funds are allocated to the community for the harvesting funds. It has come to my attention in the last two years that there are no trappers and not very many hunters on those committees. It is run by the bands. There are a number of trappers out there who wish to have input in it but do not have input. I would like the Minister to make sure there are trappers on there, whether they are elected members or not, because right now there are only elected members sitting on it to decide on what happens. Some of these people have never trapped in their lives and they decide on what a trapper should do. I do not think that is fair.
Going on to environment, this government, by installing hydro and dams out there, they have affected fish stocks in some of the lakes in the Dogrib region. I would like to ask the Minister if they can look at restocking some of the lakes that have been affected by these hydro dams and power dams. The last dam did not affect them. They were all ready gone. Dogrib power put a dam and it did not affect them at all.
Then going to capacity building, you have over 200 people receiving training in the Maximizing Northern Employment Program. I would like to know which 10 communities have received funds for this. That is about all I have on Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development. Thank you.