Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. I guess, I think this is about trying to find a balance here. I don't think anybody feels that the ENR staff, in particular, that they need to have broad enforcement authority and I think there's some other commentary in here about how some better cultural sensitivity training and so on might be made available to officers. But, and I think we all recognize they have a very difficult job to do when they're out in the field, very difficult. But the way I guess the court process works, sometimes stuff that is seized during an investigation sits for months and I guess -- so trying to find a -- if there's some way in which the seizure itself can be dealt with more quickly so that equipment, in particular, or meat can be shared before it spoils and so on, I think that's what this is aimed at. I don't think this is criticism in any way of the enforcement officers and the difficult job that they have. Thanks, Madam Chair.
Kevin O'Reilly on Committee Motion 205-19(2): Committee Report 24-19(2): Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on the Statutory Review of the Species at Risk (NWT) Act and Wildlife Act - Increase Funding Support for Community Harvester Assistance Program, Carried
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Committee Motion 205-19(2): Committee Report 24-19(2): Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on the Statutory Review of the Species at Risk (NWT) Act and Wildlife Act - Increase Funding Support for Community Harvester Assistance Program, Carried
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