Mr. Chairman, again, what we are finding even from the national organizations and also from the federal agencies and government is that they now have encompassed traditional knowledge in all of their discussions with the scientific community. I think that we have to embrace both types of knowledge regardless if it is scientific or traditional knowledge and working in conjunction with the scientific community and the Aboriginal communities to format the information, but make sure that we come at it from both sides looking from the scientific community and from the Aboriginal perspective on traditional knowledge. I think it is important that policy doesn’t simply... The policy has to devolve as you develop. The more information, the more idea of how the process will be confined and how that information is going to be used. I think that, from the Aboriginal community and also from the scientific community, they finally come to realize that they are both just as important. If not, they operate on the same playing field. I think that we have to make sure that everything we do, regardless if it is caribou counts, plants be seized or water quality issues, I think that we have to be able to use it in the format that is useable, but more

importantly, retain as much of that information as you can.

I know the Aboriginal groups I represent have done a lot of logging information regardless if we are talking about plants or we are talking basically traditional clothing, and more importantly, the traditional activities in regards to migration patterns regardless if it is different types of animal species. I think that we have to not only use it or lose it, but more importantly, make sure that we have a continuance domain of how this stuff will be locked away and hide it on the shelf and put another report that can collect dust. I think that we have to develop whatever resources, but again looking at your budget, it doesn’t seem like we are spending much money in this area. Again, I would just like to know why not. We spend a lot of money on consultants. We spend a lot of money on the scientific community who comes up here mostly from the different universities across the country. Again, I would just like to regulate what type of long-term capital investment are we making, but more importantly, ensuring that we have a policy and devolving over time, and more importantly, improving in regards to the process moving forward.