Thank you, Mr. Chair. On the issue of mushrooms, we’ve been waiting for a response from the federal government. We’ve talked to them on numerous occasions and written them on two occasions to amend the Forest Resource Transfer Agreement that was done in 1987. There are two areas here. One is the mushroom industry and the other one is the incidental use of forests that we want to have the ability to manage those two areas as well.
We’ve worked with our lawyers, with the federal lawyers, and have drafted a document that will address it. So we’re just waiting now for word from the federal government on approval to proceed in that area.
On the question of inventory and capacity, we’ve undertaken around close to a quarter of the territory in the NWT with our inventory work and some of the
proposed projects for biomass, we absolutely do have the capacity for sustainable harvest levels in the Northwest Territories. At this point what’s being put forward is well below the sustainable numbers that we have with our current inventory. Thank you.