Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks for that response, Deputy Minister. That was interesting information on the mobile zones. Sounds like a unique opportunity there.
We are, again, just to repeat, we’ve clearly failed with caribou management and I can guarantee as a biologist and a keen observer that we will fail with the Bluenose-East herd unless this government gets up the gumption to close the season when the cow harvest is filled because the cow harvest will not stop. If the cow harvest has been filled, then we know that many more cows have been killed than the department is aware of. How many, that’s an unknown.
We also don’t know, the Minister mentioned 15,000; we have no data from back in those days. We completely chose to not measure harvest and I can see going back and looking at the rate of decline we can estimate that and I appreciate that work, but again, here we are.
So I’ll leave it at that. I haven’t heard that the department is closing the season on the cow harvest as yet, and if we don’t do that we will continue to fail and a few people will enjoy their caribou meat at the cost of yet more generations of future people suffering the loss. Just a comment.