Mr. Chair, I wanted to speak to a little bit of my experience on the CANOL Trail. I just love being out there on the CANOL Trail and hoping that we would have a future Do et’q Territorial Park. This area is very special to the people in the Sahtu and I recommend that some of my colleagues here have some time to take a hike on the trail there and see the beauty there. It would be good for all of us to be out on the land there. However, Mr. Chair, there’s a serious threat to the proposed territorial park and that’s the ATVs, the all-terrain vehicles, as I spoke to earlier, that’s destroying some of the pristine beauty of the future territorial park, especially the tires from these vehicles are grinding up the muskeg, they’re exposing permafrost and the trail now is turning into mud. It damages the plants and the lichens in those areas.
Mr. Chair, I want to ask the Minister, under the Territorial Parks Act, they offer protection in our parks in allowing motor vehicles except in designated areas. I wanted to ask, because the CANOL is not yet a territorial park -- it’s been proposed -- if there’s any type of interim protection that he can work with his colleagues to see if there could be some restrictions of ATVs in this area here. Thank you.