With regard to labs, we have Renewable Resources labs in Fort Providence mainly for testing bison. Providence is an area where you really should have some kind of lab to test water quality, to indicate, for the rest of the communities down the river whether the water is safe. That

has been agreed. I realize that Providence would be the first one hit if contaminants were to be detected. I would hope that in your long-term plans it will be planned for. It is not good enough to have the federal government testing.

You say you monitor, but how much monitoring do you do? I just don't know how you can have a person there 100 per cent of the time watching the testing, but not really knowing how the results of those tests are determined. If we do have a person who knows how to determine the results of those tests then we should keep that person up here to do our own monitoring on water quality.

Again, this is a concern. I think Fred mentioned deformed fish. I mentioned that too. We also see a lot of dead fish in the river. I can't answer for the fish, but I know that something is definitely wrong because those fish cannot just up and die without answers. That concern will be expressed every year, I suppose, and it is going to start being expressed increasingly by other Members along the river I am sure.

I did hear on the 8:30 news yesterday, about these fish being caught in Fort Good Hope, too. Their feeling is that it is from the oil field. People are raising concerns. In order for us to get some confident answers, we cannot keep relying on other research labs to do our tests for us. I think we should hire our own people and start doing it ourselves and ensure the levels that are determined are the actual levels.