Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the commitment by the Minister. When I look at the funding that is here, I think it is good, but I think that we need more. There is money here to carry on the surveys. There is money for the collars. There is money for traditional knowledge work. There is some fire management. There is some predator control money, and maybe a little bit for research. I don't see anything in here, though, about habitat protection, not one cent.
We have asked the harvesters to give up harvesting now for years, and they have done that. In some cases, they have actually done it voluntarily, but there is not one cent in here for habitat protection. The Bathurst caribou management plan calls for habitat protection. There is to be some work done identifying or compiling key habitat; we already know where a lot of that is. There is supposed to be some work done to look at temporary caribou protection measures or caribou conservation measures, so that, when there is land use activities in an area, when you have caribou nearby, things shut down. That is the way it was done in the Kivalliq region when there was a caribou crisis.
I don't see one cent in here, though, to actually do anything about habitat protection. When is that work going to happen, and how is it going to get funded? Thanks, Mr. Chair.