Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I mentioned yesterday on the caribou issue, the discussion started in August, and we had many, many, many discussions with political leaders, with technical working groups, there were caucuses with the political leaders, there were discussions with renewable resource boards. From then until just recently here, we’ve been able to work out approaches for an interim basis on management actions to address both the Bluenose-East and the Bathurst caribou herds, barren ground caribou herds.
Initially, with the alarming, I guess, information from the reconnaissance surveys in June, it definitely was recognized as an urgent situation. Throughout the number of months to where we landed today, it evolved into a process where we worked with our political leaders, and we worked with our co-management partners, and we recognized their recommendations, and we accepted those recommendations. Today we have an approach for the interim and we all recognize we have to get back together again after we get the photographic survey numbers from the June surveys, so we’ll probably be talking again in August on an approach going forward.
I also recognize we need long-term management approaches as well. But just to confirm, some of the previous letters from communities, from co-management partners, those issues were addressed and worked out collaboratively. In the end, we took the recommendations from the co-management partners. Thank you, Mr. Chair.