It's ironic that in the community of Inuvik and most of the Mackenzie Valley there are natural gas wells all over the place, yet we're trucking in natural gas from B.C. at a very high cost. I'm hoping there's going to be a solution there. They're looking at solar and wind, but we're in darkness half the year.
To the Fisheries Council, I wanted to touch base on the freshwater marketing board and that whole initiative and the challenges they're going through. For a while, I think maybe only one or two board members were left. I think the people from my riding, the Northwest Territories, were one of the people who still participated in that whole initiative. Perhaps you could tell me where that's at.
I'm really curious about whether your organization is working on anything to increase the number of indigenous fishers in the industry. I look at Great Slave Lake, where I'm from. We have licences allocated, but they're not taken up. We have indigenous communities all around the lake that can't take part because they don't have the harbours, the community docks or the processing facilities. We're bringing in people from the south to fish in our lakes, and our people stay unemployed. Are you familiar with that whole scenario? Is this the case in other places? How can we fix it?
I had lots to ask.