Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank the Member for both his input and the community's interest in this program. I think that's the kind of interest I'm hoping that we can get from all communities. The Member is right. We've looked at regional processing centres in Hay River, Yellowknife and Inuvik. We think on the basis of what we'll have to pay out and what the program can generate, that there will be enough money to justify the three regional facilities. We're reluctant to add other processing facilities at this point because one of the premises here and one of the things that underpins this whole approach and strategy is that this will be self-sustaining. If we were to add additional deposits that were non-recoverable we could justify probably additional regional centres, but that would be such an onerous cost at some point for people to bear that we felt three was the most reasonable level for us to have.
The community depots will essentially be storage facilities and will likely have the storage capacity so that, for instance, the community depot only needs to empty its collection of recyclables potentially maybe once a year and it can be done in the winter on the winter road. We're certainly not proposing that these materials be flown around. We're going to look for the most cost-effective solution and I don't think that will include flying, unless for some reason there's some backhaul rate that's excellent and is cheaper than the winter road, but I can't imagine, Mr. Chairman, that will be the case. So that is the approach that we're taking. The materials will be driven or barges to the three regional processing centres. But I want to assure the Member, we're not flying things around at great expense. This program has to be self-sustaining, that is the goal. Now should the program warrant future regional processing depots, then that's something that I'm prepared to look at. We are paying attention to the interest from the community of Simpson and certainly the interest and efforts of the Member but, as I've indicated earlier, I don't want to hamstring this program and make it such that we have to subsidize it indefinitely because we've set up this large bureaucracy and administration. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.