Thank you, Minister. Member for Frame Lake.
Debates of March 10th, 2020
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Sorry. Thanks, Madam Chair. I didn't quite hear the Minister's answer. He said June of this year? Thanks, Madam Chair.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Thanks, Madam Chair. How is that coordinated with the government of Nunavut? Thanks, Madam Chair.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you, Madam Chair. We work collaboratively with the Nunavut government. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. I am wondering if ENR or any department has some sort of evaluation of the monetary value on the meat that local harvesters provide their communities.
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. I know that, in some conservation circles, there is hesitancy to put a value on wildlife, but I think, as we are going forward in this Assembly, looking at food security, and we are talking about increasing the harvesters assistance program, I really do think that there is a value to putting a value on what all of our caribou herds are worth to providing food security and then doing some of that assessment of what ultimately that benefit in food security is, being provided by local harvesters. Would ENR be willing to begin that work?
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you, Madam Chair. With your permission, I will ask the acting assistant deputy minister to respond to this question. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Elkin
Thank you, Madam Chair. While we have been working with our wildlife co-management partners, one of the key things that we need to know, and they want to know, is monitoring the amount of food, how much caribou do they need to meet their needs, and what is available. We do that work with them. What we have heard through our consultation on the Wildlife Act and others is that there is a desire not to put an economic value, so we try to do that work by estimating what is basically what they call a basic needs level, how much caribou do communities need to meet their needs. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, I do recognize there is that contention here. To me, if we are talking about saving the Bathurst caribou herd and we can put an economic value that it's providing thousands and thousands of dollars of meat every single year ideally forever, I guess, I think it helps make those arguments when comparing a Bathurst caribou damage to nonrenewable resource projects. I think this is a conversation for another time, but I do think that economic value has some things.
Another, kind of, core of the North American model of conservation is to not allow market hunting, essentially to not allow people to hunt for the purposes of selling meat, which kind of goes in contradiction to what I just said about prescribing a value to it. I know there is some exploration of the idea of allowing our harvesters to sell the locally harvested meat and whether that be to restaurants. Can I just get an update from the Minister where that work is at?
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you. With your permission, Madam Chair, I would like to ask the acting assistant deputy minister to answer the question.
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Elkin
Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, when we did consultation and engagement and built the Wildlife Act with our partners, we heard fairly clearly that there was not support for commercialization of wildlife, so that is actually built into the act, that you cannot do that. What we do in some land claim areas is we recognize the traditional sharing practices, and that is laid out, what that means in each of the four settled land claim areas. Department of health, I will not speak for them, but they are looking at ways to bring food into institutions, and we have been working closely with them to facilitate that, not through the commercial mechanism, but in ways to get people to donate and share so we can provide that to people in facilities. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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