Mr. Chair, I have a few questions in this area here. I want to start with the climate change and the impacts that we’re seeing in the Sahtu region. I’ve talked to a few of the trappers who use the land consistently, and what they have talked to me about is the erosion of the banks along some of the rivers that they go up to hunt and trap in, go up to live during the summer months, and the rivers that they use during the fall time for their fall

hunts. They’re noticing the erosion of the landscape, of the banks and of the hills, and they were asking if there is any possible way that the department is working with the local hunters and trappers on that river, because some of these rivers for the natural erosion that’s happened due to the thawing of the permafrost in that area.

Is the Minister conducting a territorial-wide assessment or a survey on which rivers in the Mackenzie area or just in the whole Northwest Territories on the amount of erosion that’s happening on the smaller rivers that the trappers use for hunting and trapping?