Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. With regard to the environment and natural resources, one of the biggest initiatives that has been ongoing for a while too is the Beverage Container Recovery Program and it's something that people in my riding have expressed interest about. They look at how it's laid out and it's kind of confusing, Mr. Chair, because what they actually want to do is spend lots of money.

I think there are only three regional processing centres; Hay River, Yellowknife and Inuvik. What they actually have to do in order to meet the terms of this act is that smaller communities, very small communities, which are in my riding, like Nahanni Butte, Trout Lake, Jean Marie, have to get their recoverable wastes over to Hay River. It's manageable in a place like Wrigley who is covered by the road, Jean Marie is covered by the road and Fort Simpson and Fort Liard, but what it calls for is that it has to get to Hay River; it doesn't stop in Fort Simpson. The way the legislation reads and is worked out is that communities like Nahanni Butte and Trout Lake have to actually fly their recoverables over to Hay River to the regional processing centre.

In fact, the terms of the reference of the contract calls for them to fly the recoverables and you look at it and you say that doesn't make sense, that's like a logistical nightmare. What really makes sense there, Mr. Chair, is to make Simpson a regional processing centre and that will make sense because it's something that Fort Simpson has always been doing for 20 years. They've been storing glass and recoverables and making a go out of it. Now we've passed legislation that omits them from doing that type of work. In fact, using the road system we can become a recoverable centre for further up the valley from waste that comes out of Deline, out of Tulita and Norman Wells. Just using the road system, it makes sense to get it to Fort Simpson.

So that's something that I've taken up with the Minister and brought up on several occasions and I'd like to take this opportunity to bring it up again. Here we have an opportunity to do something that makes sense and I really think that we should strive towards that. Just with that, Mr. Chair, perhaps I can get the Minister to comment with regard to the eventuality or even making Fort Simpson a sub-regional processing centre. It doesn't make sense to fly all the goods from Nahanni Butte to Hay River, but it does make sense to get it to Fort Simpson or from Wrigley, from Jean Marie, from Trout Lake and we can bulk it up there and then perhaps get it to Hay River. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.