Thank you very much for the question.
Yes, it has. From my basic research, of course, when I have time—and most of us don't have time to watch a lot of television, but I do watch what I refer to as the wildlife channel—I can tell you that hunting, fishing, and these activities are looked upon as family activities, as something you can do with your children. As I said to some friends of mine who are business people and are very nervous, well, instead of taking a Prozac or some other anti-whatever, grab a fishing rod, jump in a boat, and go out on a lake somewhere. It will be much more beneficial to you, and you'll have a good time.
Of course, when you speak to your federations, they do have family days, so I think we're looking at this as a healthy and wholesome thing to do with your families. Go hunting. Go fishing. I suspect very strongly that for you, like it is for me, these activities are part of your DNA, actually. My grandson is only five years old and his daddy just took him out to the hunting camp to do a little fishing. He takes him out fishing.
He's in northwestern Ontario. His words to me were that my grandson was just shaking with excitement that he was going hunting birds with dad, so it is in our DNA in our early years. I think that's a story that goes for many, many Canadians.
We had a cottage in the Pontiac. As I mentioned in my speech, my maternal grandfather, Narcisse, was a hunter and a trapper for years and years. He was one of the best. At the risk of saying something inappropriate, he used to say, “I used to teach my aboriginal friends how to trap some animals”.