Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, life in AOC is always interesting.
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Mr. Speaker, the whole crux of the issue of the work since 2003 and the millions of dollars spent by the government, the thousands of hours of staff time, hundreds of hours of airplane and helicopter time, the hundreds of thousands of square kilometres covered, was to find out what was going on. We gathered, 180 of us, in Inuvik. We spent six months prior to that talking about the numbers and the work that was done. People in Inuvik gathered. We are here today saying that we support their recommendations, yet we are going to say we can't talk about the decline of caribou, so we tell the people in Inuvik that, basically, that wasn't a very worthwhile exercise, at least not in this forum today.
It makes no sense to me, Mr. Speaker. Clearly, there is an issue. There is a serious decline. We have spoken to the motion. I think we have to carry on with the motion in its entirety to keep the integrity of the motion and recognize the value and put value in respect on the work that the people have done for the last six months to get us to this point where we can stand in the Legislature and support this. I won't support this amendment. Thank you.
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