Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, in situations where there is a potential flooding situation, the rivers are watched very carefully. This is certainly the case almost every spring in Hay River and also with the Salt River in the last few years. This was the case in Aklavik last spring when there was a potential flood situation there. In that case, certainly in advance of the situation, it is often from local knowledge that people have about how much snow there is and often what elders think is going to happen with the river in the spring. The local people are alerted. Our regional superintendent and staff are certainly alerted. Last year, for example, in Aklavik we were receiving almost daily reports from the regional superintendent as the river rose. It looked, as you know, very close at one point that it was, in fact, going to flood.

In specific answer to the question, yes, the flooding situations are always closely monitored. In terms of are they tested, the emergency measures sometimes do include things like mock disaster, and these do occur in some communities from time to time where there will be a mock disaster just to test how well the plan works. Sometimes these are done with an aircraft crash simulation or an accident simulation. They have proven to be very beneficial. So yes, those things do occur as well. Thank you.