Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, let me say that we do these mock exercises, table top exercises, live exercises on emergency response regularly. We do it at all 27 airports in the Territories and given the limited capacity in a lot of the smaller communities I think we are doing the best we can along with the EMO.
On the issues of the higher altitude pollution and so on, I will talk to Mr. Antoine about that one. I do not know. I do not know if the pollution stays there or if it is blown around. There are some pretty strong winds blowing at high altitudes, 100 and 200 mile an hour winds that are blowing it. So there is probably a lot more pollution all over the globe as a result, but it may not necessarily be caused by jets that are flying directly over us. It could be blowing in from anywhere. I will talk to the Minister of environment about it.
On the military and reliance on the military, yes, they come out of Winnipeg or Trenton, Ontario or somewhere a long ways from here. When they respond to emergencies they are on 24-hour call and they are off the ground pretty quickly if an ELT goes off or something like that. Again, we are not directly involved in it as a department. We understand that there is a joint committee made up of federal agencies responsible for emergency response in remote areas -- it includes DND and the RCMP and I am not sure who else on it -- that are looking at the issue that Mr. Nitah is raising with us. I think it is one that is looked at seriously by all of us. Thank you.