Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My department is aware that there was an announcement by the Government of Alberta that it has a proposal in its hands from the pulp and paper company to establish a pulp and paper mill. Approving it in principle means that the proposal will be going forward to the environmental assessment, the Government of Alberta, and the company will have to make an environmental impact statement, which it has not done yet. Once the environmental impact statement is tabled to the environmental assessment review panel, then the environmental impact statement will be made public. Until that point, nobody has the knowledge of the possible impact of the proposal.

At the present time, I do not know when the environmental impact statement will be released to the environmental review committee in Alberta. I am told that the company is proposing a new process which does not use chlorine to whiten the pulp and, until we get the environmental impact statement, we do not know what the possible impacts will be.