Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm going to be speaking in favour of the motion that's before us today. I applaud the efforts of my colleagues in bringing this motion forward. There was a lot of work that went into it, obviously, with some of the discussion that's happened in this House over the life of this session and into last year. It's a very important matter, Mr. Speaker, and you can hear how passionately my colleagues speak of caribou, what it means to the people of the Northwest Territories, to their constituents, and the aboriginal people who have hunted caribou for thousands and thousands of years here in the Northwest Territories. I think it is vitally important that we get some clarity on the issues that are out there, we get some money into researching caribou and finding out more about them so we can protect the calving grounds, so we can protect migration routes, and we can make a difference, Mr. Speaker, because the decisions that we make, as leaders here in the Northwest Territories, obviously are going to have impacts well into the future, and we have an obligation to the future residents here in the Northwest Territories and generations to make the decisions that are going to ensure that there are caribou here for everyone's use well into the future.
So again, Mr. Speaker, I am in support of the motion. There definitely needs to be some more resources put into the research, the methodology, and the accounting of the caribou. We have to do the research. We have to work with the elders. We have to work with the communities, the co-management boards, in an effort to get everybody on the same page, and if the numbers are true, then we really, really have to take decisive action.
So again, I wanted to thank the mover and the seconder of the motion and I will be supporting the motion, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.
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