Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have a facility in Swan Hills, Alberta that actually burns or incinerates PCBs because it is very difficult for these to breakdown in the natural environment. I would strongly urge the Minister to write the federal Minister of the Environment to state our case. I do not see anyway that the GNWT should be allowing the burial of any type of PCB material, because we do not know what the long-term effects are. By lobbying some of the aboriginal organizations to find other alternate sites to bury them, I think is incomprehensible because of the seriousness of the situation. We really do not know what the long-term impacts of PCBs are.

I ask the Minister on behalf of our government, because I do know that the Minister is acutely aware of this situation and is interested in environmental protection, that he would write the federal Minister, Sergio Marchi, to let him know that the 11 sites they are talking about which are in the Northwest Territories that we as a government, the people, do not under any circumstances want this type of material if it turns out that the PCB levels are so high in the paint, as indicated in correspondence that I have received. Again, I will ask the Minister if he would commit at this time to write the federal Minister to again reiterate that we do not want these PCBs buried. I think again, by going to aboriginal groups and trying to get another place to bury them for approval of same, is just a way of circumventing us. I think we should state our case and make it very clear that under no circumstances do we want any type of PCB material buried. I wonder what the response is from the Minister. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.