In the area of pollution, we know there are definitely waterborne pollutants. I would like to know exactly what sort of pollution is going into the water, like everybody else. As I said earlier, in the Mackenzie in the Deh Cho a lot of the water comes out of Alberta. There are a number of rivers that go through central Alberta and there are a number of pulp mills along these rivers. As well, there are a lot of communities, farms and logging sites along these rivers. These probably add to the pollution in the river.

This is not a capital question, but since we are on general comments I would like to ask the department if they have ever identified how many pulp mills are along these rivers and how many communities are putting pollutants into the rivers? These are the two areas that I would like to identify. I'm talking about the two rivers that join in Simpson, one of them is the Mackenzie River and the other is the Liard River that flows out of British Columbia.