Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the Member’s comments. I do fully concur that the model developed by the Porcupine Caribou Management Board is one that is worthy of emulation that the thresholds that they’ve agreed to have taken the politics out of the management of a very critical herd. It’s a lesson that we need to learn down here and a goal we need to achieve here are those types of thresholds. The area where the Porcupine is, of course, this is a very politically complex area. The biggest noticeable difference is where there are unsettled claims and settled claims. With the Wek’eezhii Board it is much more clear-cut with the Tlicho in the Chief Drygeese area, unsettled claims. The Metis are here as well. It’s much more politically sensitive.

I appreciate the Member’s comments. We are trying to take the lessons learned from the Porcupine Caribou Management Board.