Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Member indicated, I was able to meet with the Minister of DIAND in Ottawa on September 1st and had a fair bit of discussion around the cleanup at Giant Mine. We discussed the issues in-depth and I was very impressed, he was well briefed on the file. He indicated that it was a priority for the department to see this cleanup move forward. The last time I stood in the House and answered the Member's questions in this regard, he had some concern about the level of dialogue, I believe, between our officials and DIAND officials. I am getting weekly updates from my staff; we are having almost weekly meetings with our staff and their staff. Our deputy minister of the department has just recently met with the regional director general of DIAND to go through these. There are several outstanding issues of liability and responsibility on surface. Who is responsible for what is something that continues to nag. I have given direction to our staff to try to negotiate a bit of a cap in terms of financial exposure on our part so that we can move forward on cleaning this mess up. I think if we decide that we want to resolve all of the potential outstanding liability and responsibility issues, we will be here for a long time.
I would rather see us start to clean this up and work those issues through as they arise, but the key to us being able to do this is having some understanding of what our potential financial exposure will be and we are working on that. Thank you.