Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I agree with my honourable colleague, it is not acceptable. There is no question about that. There are a lot of things that are not acceptable, that this government cannot do because of the fiscal constraint in which we are under.

I have already indicated to him that we have identified the sites and I am advised that it is going to cost somewhere around $30 million, not for clean up, but just to do a careful analysis of what each of these sites are going to be. I am not prepared to commit today as to whether we could afford $30 million right now or not. All I am telling you is, that as far as I am concerned, it is an important issue, it has to be identified and we need to find the funding. Maybe it is a joint federal/territorial responsibility. I do not know, but certainly, I do not have some money tree as people occasionally think I do and go out and pluck large dollar bills from the tree.

We are trying to deal with the issue as we move towards division for the assets and liabilities. We have done a preliminary review of 640 odd sites. I will endeavour, as I said in an earlier question, to answer his concern about responsibility and at the same time will undertake to determine an appropriate course of action as to whether we can do a full feasibility study which will cost $30 million and discuss it with the committee at the time and determine which programs, and which jobs and programs we are going to take it from.