Mr. Speaker, the responsibility for monitoring water quality in the Northwest Territories resides with the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. It is their responsibility through the Northwest Territories Waters Act to provide for conservation, for development and utilization of waters in the Northwest Territories for monitoring what is happening as a result of development. We as a government participate in it and we certainly lobby with our views, but because it is not our area of responsibility, we do not have an overall plan, except to say that we do recognize the need to maintain the integrity of our water system, to maintain the quality of it and to ensure that development does not have negative effects.
Having said that, we do participate and we cost share in programs like the West Kitikmeot/Slave Study project, which looks at water quality in a specific region. We will continue to do that in all areas where there is development. Thank you.