Thank you.
This is a bit of a touchy subject, but I'm sometimes known for being overly honest and up front. In one of my previous roles, I was in discussions with a first nations chief from Vancouver Island in which we talked about the traditional harvest of whales. They haven't harvested whales for a number of years, for a multitude of reasons, but in that conversation the chief asked me how I or my organization, as a conservation organization, would feel about their potential harvest of whales in the future.
It was a challenging question to me, but I'm going to pose to all three groups of witnesses here this morning the question of your positions on the traditional harvest of whales. I don't mean killer whales—I don't know whether anyone harvested killer whales. Have there been traditional whale harvests in any of your organizations?