I agree, a close look is needed because we have clearly been failing miserably on our management of caribou. The herds have continued to plummet with every new report that we get. So I’m not averse to looking at how we’re spending it, but it is disconcerting to hear that sort of thing when we’re clearly failing.
Just on the caribou situation, I don’t think there’s any doubt that cow caribou, the female caribou, the adult female caribou are worth their weight in diamonds or gold or whatever it is that you value, yet in every case where we have established a quota and assigned a ratio of the number of bulls to number of cows, we have failed and vastly exceeded, sometimes by 100 percent, the cow harvest. That is, we’re reducing the reproductive capacity, the recovery capacity of those herds. I know we’re continuing on that and now we’re going to be even more amazing in how we limit the harvest on Bathurst herds by having a mobile …(inaudible)…based on, I don’t know, a dozen or two collars. This is even more magic. So I don’t see the answer yet.
Can the Minister tell me: Will these quotas be shut down? Will the hunt be shut down once the female quota has been reached?