Our department continues to participate on the working committees that are dealing with this issue. The underground clean-up of the arsenic is clearly DIAND's responsibility. We continue to press them not to delay on this. We have had a fair bit of concern about the recent reluctance on their part to allocate a budget and get on with things. The fact is that they are falling behind in some of the work from last year.

Recently, the deputy minister has sent a letter to DIAND encouraging them to allocate the money and get on with the assessment and the surface clean-up and keep this on schedule. I think we are as concerned as many people are in the territories that this thing might start to slide. We do not want to see that happen either. Thank you.