Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have one question for the Minister responsible for Renewable Resources. The riding that I represent, the Kitikmeot, there is a mine within my riding, Lupin Mine, Echo Bay Mines, and I am wondering if you have any idea, or is there anyone in place to monitor where this gold mine, Lupin Mine, is disposing of their dangerous waste, like arsenic. Where are they depositing all of this waste?
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Minister, some of the people in Coppermine are coming to me regarding a concern that some of the fish that they are catching in the lakes, close to the mine, have become deformed. Some of the caribou that are being harvested are not suited for human consumption, because the meat in the caribou is turning green. The wildlife that fly up every spring land close to the tailings pond, and they become inedible.
In talking to many of the workers who work at Lupin Mine, the caribou graze and they bed down for the night right beside their bunkhouses, and there is fear that they go to the lake and drink whatever it is in there that makes them sick. So, I was wondering if you have any ways of monitoring, or getting up to Lupin Mine, and investigating what they are doing to the environment. It affects the people of Coppermine, and also Bathurst Inlet.