Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess I understand the Minister's point of view that all communities are going to be affected to some degree with pipeline construction. I guess all I'm really concerned about is the fact that a lot of these communities don't have housing markets, they don't have a lot of infrastructure, they don't have a lot of the amenities that a lot of these other 11 communities probably have, like Hay River and Fort Smith and a couple of these larger centres.

With that being said, you know, I just don't know how we can say who's going to be really impacted and who isn't going to be impacted, because I feel that a community like Hay River and even Fort Smith and Fort Resolution, who have been on the road system, I think there's going to be a lot of pipeline construction workers who are going to be taking up residence in these communities that have housing markets, these communities that have community development plans that are in the works and have a little more infrastructure in their communities so they can raise families and have decent schools. I think there would be a large influx of construction workers into these communities, as opposed to taking up residence in Fort Good Hope or Colville Lake or anywhere off the road system.

I just feel that $15,000 to do any technical or professional or legal reviews, or even economic impact reviews for any of these communities is really insufficient. I don't think $15,000 really carries a lot of professional time attached to that. Just to do some social impacts in these communities is definitely going to soak up all that money, not to mention the economic impacts and the infrastructure impacts and the legal research and advice that's going to be required and the regulatory reviews that maybe some of these communities want to get in on.

Are there any other dollars these communities are entitled to? I know that the federal government funding arrangements are only for these impacted communities that are identified in this environmental impact statement. That goes for proponent funding, too, on any social or economic impact measurements that these communities want to do. All this funding is just for these 21 communities that are identified in that impact statement.

I think maybe if this government was going to fund something like that, that they'd fund maybe more to these other 11 that aren't privy to this federal government funding and proponent funding and stuff like that to do all these reviews. So why shouldn't they give more to these other 11 communities as opposed to giving the majority $50,000 to each one of these 21 communities on top of all the other monies they have at their disposal? I just don't see a balance in that. Thank you.