Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the department has completed the second round of public consultation. The department has met with the wildlife aboriginal advisory group to finalize its recommendation on the legislation. A report of the recommendation from this WAAG group has been provided to my office. We in RWED have analyzed the results of public consultation and the department is preparing a policy position on the major issues. We will be preparing an information document for public distribution this summer.

It would be outlining the results of the consultation that we have undertaken with the hunters and the wildlife groups, and a proposal on the major issues for a new Wildlife Act and species at risk will be in this proposal.

We should be ready. We are on-stream. We think that the earlier information that we provided, we are still aiming for a new wildlife legislation to come into force during the fall of 2003, so we have a number of steps we have to go through in that whole process. Thank you.