Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Okay, so we met with pretty much everybody who hopefully has an interest in caribou numbers. One person, one thing, one section of that that I didn't hear of is why didn't they meet with industry, the diamond industry? If memory services me correctly, I think the herds started going down as soon as the world's largest diamond staking claim rush started happening in the NWT. That's when we started recognizing declining numbers in caribou herds in that area. Why don't we meet with industry and find out how the impact of industry is affecting the caribou numbers? I think that has a big impact in the whole numbers in themselves, but reducing outfitters' numbers by 493 tags, you know, those things aren't going to make any difference whatsoever. I think if we...
Robert Villeneuve on Question 292-15(5): Accuracy Of Caribou Population Estimates
In the Legislative Assembly on February 12th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 292-15(5): Accuracy Of Caribou Population Estimates
Question 292-15(5): Accuracy Of Caribou Population Estimates
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 11th, 2007
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