Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just with regard to all the outfitters that have been affected by the drop in their quotas, I'm wondering if one suggestion that was brought to my attention is raising the number of tags that the outfitters in the northern North Slave region might be able to bounce back with is raising the number of tags for grizzly bear tags that they're allowed to harvest in the northern part of the NWT. A lot of outfitters feel that if they raise those quotas -- the number of grizzly bears is definitely grown quite significantly with the amount of polar bear, human incidents that are arising in the mines and in the exploration camps and stuff -- will the government consider bringing the grizzly bear tags to the attention of the outfitters and say hey, you know, this is something that you probably could fall back on in the five years that this Caribou Management Strategy is going to be rolling out. Is that a consideration? Thank you.
Robert Villeneuve on Question 83-15(5): Hardships Created By Declining Caribou Herds
In the Legislative Assembly on June 8th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 83-15(5): Hardships Created By Declining Caribou Herds
Question 83-15(5): Hardships Created By Declining Caribou Herds
Item 7: Oral Questions
June 7th, 2006
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