Thank you. Mr. Speaker, let me very quickly summarize the situation. Generally, if I just look at the territorial level, there are three environmental assessment bodies. One is part of the Inuvialuit Land Claim. There is the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Process and there is the National Energy Board process. If we just let each of them go their own way, then we would have three preliminary screenings. We would have three sets of environmental hearings and boards set up, so we would have environmental boards tripping over each other trying to have meaningful consultations.

So my objective is to have them work in one coordinated fashion where you would have one board representative of all three agencies that would hold one set of hearings. Then we do not have problems with people getting tired of groups coming to their communities and asking for information. We would also prevent the problem of conflicting recommendations from it.

This is not in any way to compromise or get around any of the need to be very diligent in this process. It is more how to coordinate so we do not have all these boards each doing their own independent thing but still recognize the importance of protecting our environment. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.