Environment committee  I remember my father once being asked that same question, or why he hunted. His answer to the person was that it's no different than me trying to tell you what benefits religion would have in my life. It's difficult to put into words. I couldn't say everything even though I work

Environment committee  Certainly. When we did the 2006 economic impact study of hunting, angling, and trapping in Saskatchewan, one of the major areas we wanted to try to determine was with regard to our two major cities in Saskatchewan, Regina and Saskatoon, where more than 50% of our population lives

Environment committee  Saskatchewan has been experiencing actually very high precipitation levels for the last number of years, and if you ask our friends in Manitoba, they're asking us to stop shipping water that way. An interesting development has occurred from that, though. We have our pothole syst

Environment committee  As we've mentioned, the climate change we're experiencing right now, with an amount of moisture that we haven't had for a number of years, is such that, as we quite often comment in our field, when it's raining, we're considering building arks, and it's helping ducks and fish. So

Environment committee  I would definitely point out that species populations ebb and flow all the time. I've always made a comment to our biologists that we're very effective at managing ungulates and other game species, but we're not very effective at managing predators. Our predator numbers in Saskat

Environment committee  Absolutely. I sit on the HAAP and as with most advisory panels and other types of organizations like that, it took some before we started to have some traction. I can tell you that all of the participants on there right now in our discussions before, after, and during the HAAP me

Environment committee  I certainly agree with both of my counterparts. Red tape is a significant issue, to the point where, in Saskatchewan, when the fisheries opportunities came up with the federal government, we tried to apply, but because at that point we received much of our funding from the fish a

Environment committee  It's interesting. I just hired a new education coordinator. Her first day was yesterday. In all of our interviews, she pointed out very accurately that she grew up through this whole process. I hate to give much credit to The Hunger Games, but we have a program here in Saskatche

Environment committee  I think we have to have some additional education. Again, I talked about that 80% of the public. If you can convince them using good science that certain things need to be done, I think they will, absolutely. We are controlling so many of the aspects, and we are the changing fact

Environment committee  A lot of people probably don't realize that our pothole system here in Saskatchewan, as I mentioned before, contributes to, if I am not mistaken, about 80% of the duck population in North America. Having the support of NAWMP, if I can refer to it as that, in Saskatchewan, and the

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the significance of recreational fishing in Canada. I've reviewed much of the very comprehensive information that you have been presented with by a number of

Fisheries committee  Yes, sir.

Fisheries committee  I would say that that is not the case in Saskatchewan. There is not overuse by any anglers, whether commercial fishing or recreational angling. I would agree that one of our biggest issues in Saskatchewan remains access for fish to spawning areas. In Saskatchewan our road system

Fisheries committee  Absolutely, we do them all the time. I mentioned the 70 projects we have undertaken. Probably 50 of them were exactly that, reconstructing roadways to allow for fish passage. I would comment that we have not used any federal money to do any of those projects, because of the req

Fisheries committee  I would say that our biggest issue when we look at the fishery dollars as they're being allocated or accessed is that they don't really seem to identify the opportunity at the community level. We find in Saskatchewan that the vast majority of opportunities we have are in small-to