Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have written to the Minister of Environment, Mr. Charest, on a number of occasions. As recently as yesterday I wrote a letter to him conveying our position. Our position is that no dumping should be allowed in the ocean. Our preferred option is to remove the scrap metal to southern places. As an alternative that scrap metal be disposed of on the land if it cannot be shipped to southern destinations.
Mr. Speaker, PanArctic may have mentioned that we lose snowmobiles and other items on the ice when it is melting. PanArctic would like to dump 400,000 tonnes of scrap metal, that translates to about 79,000 ski-doos going through the ice. Thank you.