Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don't want to downplay the importance of caribou in the territory or in Nunavut or in the Yukon, that's for sure, but I think a better community-based comprehensive approach has to be taken. A traditional knowledge approach to how we manage caribou has got to be taken up by this government and maybe that's why it's in decline, is because we're just listening to too many biologists and people that just have never hunted a day in their lives and they're telling us how to manage our caribou and our wildlife. I think that's the approach that we really have to incorporate a lot of traditional knowledge on what is the best approach to managing wildlife and it's long overdue definitely. Maybe that's why it's in decline and I hope that when we do get all this information that comes out of this management strategy and the recommendations that come of out of these stakeholders, especially the hunters and trappers and the people that are actually out on the land that make these recommendations, this government actually uses those recommendations. Like a lot of the recommendations that come to this House and we have piles of reports of recommendations on improved programs and services and nothing gets done. So I really hope that something positive and we actually move forward on this whole initiative, because I sure in heck wouldn't want to see a good management strategy that costs a half million dollars come through this House and it gets shelved because, oh, all of a sudden now they didn't make an accurate count of one herd or another herd and, oh, the numbers weren't really that good so let's just shelve all the recommendations of the strategy in five years from now. Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's all.
Robert Villeneuve on Committee Motion 23-15(5): To Delete $222,000 From Transportation's Airports Activity In Bill 2, Defeated
In the Legislative Assembly on June 6th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 23-15(5): To Delete $222,000 From Transportation's Airports Activity In Bill 2, Defeated
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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