Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This process has been underway since shortly after last April. We've been working with the co-management boards up and down the valley, with the Inuvialuit, with the Gwich'in, the Sahtu. We met with the Tlicho chiefs. We've met with the Northwest Territories Metis Nation. We've met with the Yellowknives. We've met with the barren-land outfitters. We've been talking about the numbers.
If you look at the interim measures, there's been some clear steps that have been agreed to in the short term. Some of the co-management boards have come forward, especially from the North, with their own recommended courses of action that they have decided in their wisdom that they want to move on and that we've agreed with. So we've made some decisions. We also have a broader strategy that's going to allow us to move ahead over the next four or five years. The first step is to take the steps that I've laid out and we want to follow through on that.
There's also a big meeting come up here the start of next week that's going to bring together folks that tie into the Bathurst committee. We've brought in, as well, some other people that didn't sit on that committee the last time to look at issues surrounding the Bathurst herd, and we are going to redo the numbers this spring and summer with the census count. So we do have a plan and we think it makes sense and we've consulted extensively. Thank you.