These conservation measures for the Bluenose-West herd were achieved through consultation, dialogue with the harvesters and dialogue with communities where they took the time and made an attempt to find a resolution to this problem coming to an agreement by all parties.

With regard to the situation we see here in the North Slave, it looks like that system is not in place or hasn’t even been considered. For some reason the Minister made a decision which overrode the political structure and the process of the Tlicho Land Claim Agreement to use that instrument, which is the fundamental instrument to deal with wildlife management in the Tlicho area and for a herd that has implications for other people.

At the appropriate time I will be asking the Minister of ENR questions about the conservation of caribou.