Thank you for that question.
The change in the minimum age was driven by the desire of both outfitters and resident hunters to take their children hunting at an earlier age. The minimum age to get a hunting licence in the territories is now 12. You need to have parental consent and you have to be accompanied by an adult hunter when you're hunting. But we also made a change so that a licensed hunter or anybody who is authorized to hunt in the territories can take somebody who's under 18 out hunting with them. The youth does not have to have their own licence, but if there is a bag limit, they have to share the bag limit of the adult hunter. Those changes were made very specifically to remove the barriers to people being able to take their children out with them.
I'd also like to add that our new Wildlife Act, which came in last November, was developed through a collaborative process with our aboriginal partners, our comanagement partners. They had a strong desire to encourage people to get out on the land and to take their kids out with them, the same way aboriginal people can do here.