Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, one of the initiatives of the new task force group is to work with the Marine Stewardship Council to have our Great Slave Lake identified and certified as a sustainable fishery. Many other commercial fisheries involve things like restocking, then fishing out the same fish. Issues related to climate and things just do not see those fish having the same quality as our white fish from Great Slave Lake. We’ve known this for a long time, but we have not found a way to brand our fish as unique here. So under this initiative to work with the Marine...

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Murray.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. How does the Minister and his department not know that there is not a whole lot more cases that have not been identified for HIV? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Ramsay.

Agreed, thank you. Page 6-18, directorate, grants and contributions, contributions, $30,000.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it’s my pleasure today to welcome, in the visitors’ gallery, Mr. Lionel Rundle, the president of the Northwest Territories Fishermen’s Federation;

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Alex Maurice, long-time fisherman in Hay River and a member of the board of directors of the NWT Fishermen's Federation.

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Three members of the new Great Slave Lake Task Force Group: Jerry Morin, Douglas Buckley and Bert Buckley.

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Also with them today from Hay River -- no stranger to the Renewable Resources in the Northwest Territories, seconded from RWED to do work with the...

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Murray.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think it would do us well to be extremely cautious not wanting to give people a false sense of security about the HIV risk. I know that I have heard it said many times before, given the indicators of behaviour that has some risk associated with it, given those indicators we do seem to have a proportionately small amount of reported cases of HIV. As the Minister mentioned, with the incubation times, we should be very cautious not to give people a sense of false security with respect to their risk of contracting HIV. Maybe we’ve just been lucky so far. I would like...

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Miltenberger.