Mr. Chairman, I have one health concern that I would like to address. I have been looking into the objectives, but I do not see it. It is in regard to gathering statistics, and I do not think it will take much for this government to take a few minutes, or if they have someone who specializes in that area, to go into the river to take soil samples, plant samples, and test them to see whether it is healthy, or the condition of the environment as well as the human condition, hair samples, blood samples, tests. I always found that, for example, in Black Lake, Saskatchewan, where there is a uranium mine, people are dying of cancer over there, and they cannot do anything because they cannot prove whether or not it is a result of the mine that has caused this.

If we were to establish the conditions before the mine was built, then you have some basis for taking a company to court, for polluting or for causing. I am always concerned about that, we still think it is not an issue, but I really am quite concerned that somewhere down the road if, for example, they went ahead with the mine near Baker Lake, I would be concerned about the people over there.

We do not know what the conditions of those people were at that time, then we cannot prove anything. I would hope that by doing yearly samples, and yearly tests, we will be able to determine if these were the conditions before the mine, and gradually from there you could say whether, or not, that the results of the health, or the conditions of those people were as a result of this.