Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The concern of the MLA for Sanikiluaq about the land and water around that area is one that this government took account of a couple of years ago when this issue first arose in the Legislature. The Member's concerns have been taken into account and the government has taken this project very seriously. At this time, there are a number of processes in place to look at the impact of this proposal from Quebec Hydro on the area.

One of the things that Quebec Hydro was asked to do was to look at the offshore issues and impacts that their project is going to have, for instance, in the area around Sanikiluaq and, generally, the area on the east side of Hudson's Bay and James Bay. The other thing that Quebec Hydro was asked to do was conduct a consultation program with Sanikiluaq. The company presented their environmental impact study this fall, in September. We've reviewed the study and are presently preparing to send letters to the federal Ministers involved with this to indicate our position.

We will be arguing that the document that Quebec Hydro has prepared is inadequate. It doesn't meet the minimum guidelines they were asked to meet. In short, we don't think they've done a very good job at all with their study and it should be redone and rewritten so there's more information on the impact that the project is going to have on Hudson's Bay and, specifically, on the Belcher Islands.

I understand that the people from Sanikiluaq will be taking the same position, since they too have reviewed the document and have expressed the same concerns as we have. The Nunavut Coalition of the Keewatin will also be taking the same approach. We've been working with these groups to make sure we're all aware of what we're doing, the things we're saying and to make sure there is some coordination in the approach we take. That's the information we have. Once we received that study, we met with the Department of Renewable Resources, and Justice met with representatives from Sanikiluaq and the other two groups, Nunavut Tunngavik and the Nunavut Coalition of the Keewatin, in Montreal, recently to discuss the concerns. As I said, it was shared equally by all Members that the study was totally inadequate. Thank you.