Thank you.
In my previous lives I was involved with wildlife conservation and the communication of hunting. I'm currently the chair of the Conservative hunting and angling caucus.
As I look back on the history of the animal rights movement, I see that their modus operandi is very clear. First they start off by questioning the sustainability of the hunt. Then they want it to be made more humane. I looked at some of the old records, and I see your department worked very hard to ensure the humaneness of the hunt and played by all the scientific rules. But it became fairly clear that the ultimate goal of these animal rights groups—who are phenomenally wealthy—was to end the seal hunt itself.
From your experience on the ice with these groups, is it fair to say that their ultimate goal is to end the hunt, period, and the humaneness and sustainability of the harvest has nothing to do with their motives?