Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have a couple of questions. I don't know how much time we'll have left, but I'm just going to propose this to the Grand Chief.
There is nothing that I can see anywhere that you can't make a recommendation to the various nations across this country to put forward a representative to work as some kind of national committee outside the frame of any national legislation that could provide direct consultation to NACOSAR. That is something you could indeed do without having to change national legislation on that matter. I'll leave that with you.
Also, Mr. Marcel, I do appreciate your comments and your concerns about the woodland caribou and the bison, but my understanding, going back to when I was in university learning from folks like Dr. David Schindler, is that the population of bison in Wood Buffalo National Park is actually a genetically diluted population, a mixed hybrid of plains and wood bison that started when the plains bison were introduced, I believe, in 1925. The concern up there is that the population is rife with tuberculosis and anthrax and there are very small populations that seem to be growing, like the Hay-Zama population of a true wood buffalo or wood bison that need to be protected from coming into contact so that there isn't further genetic dilution of that very valuable pool of genetics when it comes specifically to wood bison.
I'm not sure I understand the nature of your concerns. There are special hunts that are being put on by the Province of Alberta to deal with an ever-expanding population of bison, and it seems to me your testimony would be in direct contravention of that. Who is right in this particular case?