Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment. They are a follow-up to my Member’s statement from last Thursday where I talked about the Bathurst caribou.

As we know, the Bathurst caribou numbers are dangerously low. Currently there are a number of long-time Northerners who make a living by offering high-quality sports hunting opportunities of this herd. They bring new money into the Northwest Territories; millions of dollars per year.

What is the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment doing to help these local businesses and local people find new ways to utilize the infrastructure that they currently have in place just in case the sport hunting is cancelled as part of the Bathurst Caribou Recovery Plan?