Thank you, Mr. Chair. In regards to the cow harvest, over the past number of years with some of the recommendations that have been in place, we have seen a change in the numbers, the percentages of cows harvested compared to bulls harvested. We’re all aware that the majority of the recommendations warn hunters to focus on an 80 percent bull harvest and through working with our co-management partners and our communities we’ve made ground in that area. We’re now seeing a harvest where it was predominantly a cow harvest in the winter where we’re seeing anywhere from 60 to 65 percent as the harvest of cows, but recognizing there’s still a fair amount of work to be done in that area. But that’s a process we have to work through with our co-management institutions. Again, going forward here, it’s not an easy accomplishment knowing over the centuries and that the reliance on caribou by the Aboriginal people and the harvesting of the different, whether it’s bulls in the fall or the focus on cows in the winter is not an easy thing to change overnight, but we are making progress and we continue to want to work with, and are working with, our co-management partners in the communities to focus more on a bull harvest for a majority of the year.

We’ve also, with our existing recommendations, over the last half a dozen years a good news story is that the majority of these herds have stabilized and, of course, if we want a speedier recovery, we have to continue to make progress of reduction in cow harvests.