Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I am sure the department is aware that for the past thirteen years the municipality of Tuktoyaktuk has been constructing a shoreline erosion on the west side. Over those thirteen years I do not believe there was any point in time where except at the start, they were actually required to probe the federal departments as to what permits would be required, including ocean dumping or under environmental protection or the Fisheries Act.
The community has been doing this, Mr. Chairman, over, like I said, thirteen years. On January 21st of this year, 1998, the federal fisheries looked at the hamlet and suggested that their shoreline erosion control may be in fact subject to environmental screening committee and possibly an EARP panel. Now these can get quite expensive. Therefore, I am wondering if the hamlet is going to be stuck with these costs?