Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We take our responsibility very, very seriously when it comes to all issues related to environment and natural resources, but with wildlife in particular, and we work very hard to accommodate all Northerners. I think we’re demonstrating that, even though not to the Member’s satisfaction. I point out that we have also, for the first time in 30-some years, reopened the harvest for bison, a modest harvest for bison in the South Slave, which hasn’t been done since the mid-‘80s.

In regard to working with the Yellowknives, we have spent extensive time and effort, right from the deputy minister on down, with repeated meetings with the Yellowknives, and I’ll ask the deputy minister to lay out for committee the steps he has taken and the efforts we’ve made both to come to an accommodation but also recognize that there’s a lot of pressure from among the Yellowknives to go and take advantage of the tags and put the 150 tags to use. I’ll ask, Mr. Chairman, with your indulgence, to let the deputy fill in the detail.