Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One thing I meant to get to was on the sport hunt outfitter marketing support. I, and I know other Members, have met with the outfitters in this area and they’re basically edging on bankruptcy because of the loss of caribou. There was some hope that the herd would recover in time to rescue these businesses, and some of them have basically put their lifetime’s worth of savings and investments into the business. It’s now looking like this is not feasible within the timescale that would allow them to recover anything.
Would the Minister be willing to work with these few outfitters, or perhaps he already is, on basically a rescue cleanup operation to maybe work with the charter outfits or whatever to try and bring back whatever is recoverable and allow them to minimize their losses. There’s no question that their losses will be significant regardless of what’s done here, but the government, to some degree, led these businesses and encouraged them to make this charge. They made it and then we left them with a mismanaged resource that’s led to their decline. Recognizing now that the time frame that we’re dealing with is, being realistic, these are not recoverable. Can we help them sort of cap things over the next year and allow them to get on with their lives with as minimum loss as possible?