Mr. Speaker, the Department of National Defence has been discussing and has had discussions with the Inuit claimant groups earlier this year about ways to clean up the DEW line sites.

It is my understanding that the Inuit claimant groups have been in discussions with the Department of National Defence and also the Department of Environment on the ways in which these DEW line sites could be cleaned up. The last specific suggestion that was made was that the Department of National Defence was requesting land use permits and permission to use land fill sites to dispose of materials and buildings from these DEW line sites. Materials and buildings that apparently contain high levels of PCBs and because of the recent guidelines adopted by the Department of Environment, the levels of PCBs contained in the materials and buildings at these sites are of a level considered far too high and do not meet the minimum level required in order to qualify for being disposed of in land fill sites. At this time it is unclear what is going to be done with these DEW line sites. Thank you.