Mr. Speaker, the government continues its initiative to halt the trade in endangered species under the convention on international trade in endangered species.
Training workshops for federal and provincial enforcement staff are ongoing. Airport photo displays advising travellers not to purchase endangered species and products are currently being installed at five major airports in western Canada. Negotiations for formal agreements to implement the government's new wildlife trade act, WAPPRIITA, the wild animal and plant protection and regulation of international and interprovincial trade act, are well under way in three of the four provincial and territorial jurisdictions in western and northern Canada.
A number of prosecutions and seizures under current endangered species legislation have also occurred in western Canada recently with substantial penalties levied.
Nationally a video was recently produced for use on international airline flights and new posters discouraging the purchase of endangered wildlife products are being distributed to airlines-