Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to make sure that Members of the House know that, as Minister McLeod has indicated, ITI was aware the survey results had come in and that the numbers were much lower, I think, than anticipated. In late November, we were advised that the survey numbers had come back and, as Minister McLeod has indicated, throughout December we had a policy debate going on between these two departments, and you can see that we had concerns around how this would impact the outfitting industry. There was a disagreement as to the best course of action to proceed on, on a go-forward basis. Mr. Speaker, I think that policy debate is healthy. I think you can see from the division of the departments that this policy debate eventually took place at the Cabinet level. You know that the Premier called a meeting of the two departments to discuss the best way forward and what we've arrived at is a solution that we think strikes the balance between the need for conservation. Clearly, the herd is under pressure, the herds are under pressure, we recognize that; but we had concerns about the outfitting industry. We felt that the proposal of 350 tags would, in effect, be fatal for the industry this year and we're advocating that more time was necessary for the industry and that we'd build a plan for 2008. Obviously, that's what the Minister of ENR has done in asking the Wekeezhii board to come back with recommendations.
Mr. Speaker, there certainly was a coming together of the two departments to debate the best course of action going forward. What we have now is a plan that, I think, although it's not everything the outfitters had desired and wanted, we think allows...builds a bit of a reprieve for the industry while we build a plan for the long term. Thank you.