Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess this is nothing new for the Minister to hear this; the Minister of ENR, that is. It goes back to some comments I made in
the House earlier this week with caribou and how it is that we seem to be just having a haphazard approach to looking at and counting herds or caribou from east to west. If you look at the numbers, we are going to spend $550,000 on a Caribou Management Strategy, but we really haven't had a meeting with all the stakeholders involved, a sit down, a heart to heart with everybody. It hasn't happened. Here we are; we're going to go out and spend $30,000 on Cape Bathurst, $40,000 on Bluenose, $30,000 on Bluenose East and who knows which animals are where on any given day? Like I mentioned, and many Members in this House have mentioned, these herds cross boundaries, they don't know boundaries. They intermingle, the come together. I mean you can count them on one day and you'll have a completely different count three weeks from then. It's absurd why we would continue with that type of mentality, I would say, and I would think what really should happen is we should count them as all-encompassing, everything, and then you get a clear picture what's really happening. To me I think it's a waste, really, and I can't put it any more bluntly than that. Thank you.