Let me ask the officials this: Had they conducted any research? Had they met with any hunting groups? Had they met with any northern hunting groups—for example, Inuit who hunt bowhead whales, narwhals and belugas—or anybody in the Yukon or northern Alberta where bison hunting is legal?
Has the department reached out to any of these organizations to find out the impact of limiting hunting to calibres that produce joules of less than 10,000 and what that might do for those people who are hunting large terrestrial or aquatic animals?