Thank you, Mr. Chair. There’s a lot of good discussion here on management with the wildlife. I just wanted to share a few things. I fully know what the department is working with. I had some experience with the Porcupine Caribou Management Board a few years back. I think that we need to do the same sort of procedure as what the Porcupine Caribou Management Board has done, was develop an actual plan for these herds in our area here. I know we have great success working with… There is a number of parties that work for that management plan, including the Inuvialuit Game Council, the Gwich’in Tribal Council, Vuntut Gwitchin Government, Tron’dek Hwech’in, Nacho Nyuk Dun Mayo Government of the Yukon, the territorial government and also the Government of Canada. That shows that people can actually work together for the health of the herd. I think that is what we need to do here. They developed a scale that, if the herd is one area, there’s action that needs to be done. Whether people like it or not, for the health of the herd, you have to do it. If we even did that a couple of years back, we thought we were in the red zone, which is 25,000 to 45,000 caribou so we did a bulls only campaign. We did take a while to get buy-in, but it’s just a matter of educating the people and the public as to what needs to be done to manage that resource. I know we are just in the early stages here. It turned out that, even with our actions,

because we didn’t get a good population count, the herd was actually doing very well. It was in the neighbourhood of 134,000 caribou. That just goes to show that…

I think we are at that critical point here. Everybody needs to work together to make sure that these herds are available to our future generations. I fully support what the department is doing. I think that we need to implement this sort of plan for the herds in this region. I hope that they can work with the people from PCMB to try to develop the same sort of plan for these herds here that sets down guidelines we need to follow. We will do that.

One thing I wanted to mention, too, it was stated that no one has harvest data. I just wanted to correct that statement, because the Gwich’in actually do a harvest study three times a year. Hunters do mark down what they harvest. I believe the same goes for the Inuvialuit Game Council as well. I just wanted to correct that. Thank you.