Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Just getting back to my Member's statement and stressing the importance of the issue of our caribou crisis here in the NWT and the reorganization and reprioritization that needs to take place in order for our caribou to bounce back from these low numbers that we have, I just have some questions for the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources on the department's wildlife management funding. He knows and I know and everybody here knows that the $1 million to try and make some changes is not going to do it. We need more money in all areas of wildlife management here in the NWT. I know that a lot of that funding we rely on the federal government to provide to carry out a lot of our monitoring programs and caribou initiatives. I just wanted to ask the Minister, since '05-06 we've had the barren-ground caribou monitoring project funded at 60K, but now we have nothing in this budget for that. The Dahl sheep studies, there's nothing in this budget for that. The bird breeding surveys, the wildlife research projects, the Sahtu resources board to conduct wildlife studies. All these research projects have been sunsetted, Mr. Speaker. There's absolutely no funding in this budget to address all of these ongoing issues. I just want to ask the Minister what kind of lobbying efforts has he been doing over the last year to reinstate a lot of these programs that we depend on for funding? Thank you.
Robert Villeneuve on Question 312-15(5): Improving GNWT Wildlife Management Practices
In the Legislative Assembly on February 14th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Question 312-15(5): Improving GNWT Wildlife Management Practices
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 13th, 2007
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