Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We don't believe that the trappers will notice a negative impact on the level of service delivery. If anything, we think the heightened focus will stand these programs in good stead when it comes time to budget negotiations and business planning time. We think the potential for additional resources is heightened by the fact that there will be additional focus on this segment.
The Member I think is asking the question, since you've divided the department will it be the RROs delivering the programs from two separate departments. We will be able to do that and we are very cognizant of not wanting to disrupt service delivery in regions and not having to have people learn all over again where they go with their furs and who they talk to about trading in their traps and these kinds of things.
It will be the same people, but there will be protocol arrangements if there is a program that an RRO is in charge of delivering for ENR, as opposed to the bulk of them with ITI, then we will have a protocol arrangement, much the same way we do with -- the Member will be familiar with the Business Credit Corporation -- contracting RWED for service delivery in a region. We have a number of protocol arrangements.
There was no other way to do this, other than add a lot of administrative capacity and create redundancies all over the place, which would have been very, very expensive if we had to add additional staff to just deliver one or two programs in a region. It made much more sense, we believe, to have some sharing of resources between the two departments and that is why we set up these protocol arrangements and agreements.
If there are issues, where the Member believes, from hearing from his constituents, that service has not been adequate in a region, that is something to bring to our attention, so that we can in fact deal with it and ensure that hunters and trappers are getting the level of service they are entitled to, and are comfortable with the support the department is providing, from both our current department and the department going forward.
I think it is important that we recognize the importance of hunting and trapping. We are, and do intend to be, very client focussed. This is a department that has spread and has most of its resources on the ground in regions, so we think we are effectively able to deliver programming. But where we can improve, we certainly aim to do that and I hope the Member will work with us in bringing some of these issues to our attention. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.