Mr. Speaker, at a recent Environment Ministers' meeting, the federal Minister, Sergio Marchi, asked that a total ban be placed on any waste landfill sites with waste that contained PCBs to a certain level. Now the Department of National Defence is asking the same federal Minister to provide an exemption, so that the buildings and equipment at the DEW Line sites which contain a very high level of PCBs in the paint to provide an exemption, so that these buildings can be disposed of in landfill sites in the Northwest Territories.

We are following it. We are aware that the Department of National Defence is also speaking to aboriginal associations requesting landfill sites be made available to them for the purpose of disposing some of these wastes from the DEW Line sites. That is the information that I have to date. I am not aware that the federal Minister has responded to his counterpart in the Department of Defence. Thank you.