Mr. Chairman, I pinpointed two incidents that happened this summer, but there were also other incidents, in which, like the Hercules that went down near Herschel Island, or somewhere in the High Arctic, and that took several days before they got to it, and had cause for loss of life. Those are the kinds of situations that we are running into. We do have emergency situations, in which we really do not have, it is not a question of jurisdiction, it is a question of whether or not we have manpower ourselves to address it, and worry about the costs after it has been addressed.
We have situations, Mr. Minister, in which if a vehicle has hazardous waste, and spills some on the Mackenzie Highway, and the emergency response is not to evacuate a community, so that it might suffocate us or something like that. You know, we do not have anything in place to address that, and that is a concern I have. Naturally, they are doing some special inquiries as a result of the accident in Fort Providence, and the spill in the High Arctic; but what are we doing, as a government, to protect the people in the event of an emergency. We cannot rely on Yellowknife or Hay River to address that if it is going to be in Grise Fiord or maybe some other place, so we should be able to address it, and address it now. That is my concern, Mr. Minister, and this government must be reviewing the situation, and saying, we really do not have any plans, we should develop a plan on how we will be addressing that. These are the committees that should be designated to respond to those types of situations. We should have something in place. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.