Mahsi, Mr. Chair. I will just be brief because it has been brought up here before, just with the issue of the values at risk list. I brought this issue up a couple of years ago with the Department of RWED, when RWED was still in existence, about maybe reprioritizing the values at risk list or adding some additions to it, which I feel my friend from Monfwi here was talking about. Wildlife now is a valuable resource. I think we are starting to realize that now with the declining herds of caribou. I had asked the department to look at maybe having the caribou migration routes, feeding areas in the boreal forest area that they do migrate through, being put on this priority or values at risk list and to have fires that are threatening these main feeding grounds and areas with an abundance of lichen, to go out and fight those fires as if they were fighting for property and cultural values and everything else that they have on that list. I'd like the department to revisit that and really put some more emphasis on fighting fires, if there is an opportunity to do that and in the protection and in the best interest of wildlife.

Wildlife feeding grounds, migratory routes, I know we've got lots of studies about where they're migrating to and from and everything like that, so I don't think it's a real high problem with knowing what areas those are comprised of. Also, traditional knowledge; people, elders have always been telling me in the last couple years that they should be fighting the fire over here or this fire or that fire because it's a main breeding ground, it's got lots of lichen that caribou really depend on. It's the only thing they depend on and, therefore, RWED should priorize it and go and fight that fire and put it out. I really think that's something that should go on this list.

This list is much too short. I think there's a lot of other items that should be put on that list that are a priority to northerners, especially within forest, with the new forest management regime coming around and there's going to be increased activity in the forest industry, I hope. I think that this management, this forest fire management policy is just too simple and it's not a policy that's...It's probably a policy that's too old and has to be revisited and re-prioritized. I would like to see the department really take it into some serious consideration in the next year, in the next budget process. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Chairman.