There is a market. Which country are we in? Canada. We have to educate the rest of our fellow Canadians to show them what seals are really about.
Everybody has been demonizing both the animal and the human conducting the harvesting. We have to start really showing Canada, first and foremost. Because we don't have borders, we can send seal meat from here all the way to B.C. and to everywhere in between, and all the way to Newfoundland from our capital here.
I think the federal government needs to start promoting itâmaybe in educational situations, too, and maybe in schools. Start them young. Maybe have a food program in every elementary school in every province and territory.
I think it's not just an Inuit problem. It's a Canadian problem that Canada can actually fix itself, and not look to the outside world for a yes or no, or more stuff like that.
Thank you.