Mr. Chairman, I certainly agree with the Member that the health effects of any industrial development should be measured and should be taken into an account before a development decision is made. I can assure the Member that if we were facing a project, like the uranium mining project in the Keewatin, the Department of Health would have been ready, and actually preparing to intervene in the review process to ensure that the health concerns that the Members have expressed were going to be addressed, before the decision was made.
I want to also say that the issue of contaminants in the Arctic has not gone away, and this House, and the previous Legislature debated that issue quite extensively. We have pressed for monies to continue work on this issue through the federal Green Plan, and $200,000 has been committed in this fiscal year to work on the contaminants issue, although I am disappointed to report that notwithstanding that commitment, we still have not yet received the funds that were promised; therefore, we cannot carry out the studies that we were planning to undertake. I am hopeful that the issue of funding can be solved so that we can continue this important work. Thank you.