Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With regard to looking at consultations and the aspects around compensation, again the corporation, Deze, has just formed a couple of weeks ago. It will be that agency or board who will be the ones doing consultation in the communities through our partnership with the Metis and the Akaitcho. We feel that allowing that agency to do the consultation and filing and application to the environmental regulatory boards will now open it up to public scrutiny where the public now has a format where they can ask questions, they can debate issues, they can talk about the compensation issues. We are looking at almost two years of thorough regulatory review. During that period, it will be there.
Again, as a government, in most cases when we developed our energy strategies, this project was always mentioned in the House. It was debated in this House. We have also allowed for our different strategies where we are working on developing a territory-wide hydro strategy that we are hoping to bring forward within the next couple of months which, again, will add to the importance of hydro energy in the Northwest Territories and also ensure that we do have cheap, reliable energy that people can take advantage of. We do have to do a better job by way of consultation. Again, I think it's one of those things that we have to find a mechanism to do it with, and I think the ideal situation we are looking at is allowing the Deze board, which is our partner, where we have one-third say in that process to go out there, go into the communities, set up consultations. People have made attempts to go into different communities, and communities are busier having to deal with different issues. Now it's just a matter of scheduling, making sure we get in there and have these meetings. Now this is a public document by filing our application with the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board. It will receive public scrutiny through that process. We can talk about social issues; we can talk about compensation issues; we can talk about right-of-way issues.
It's important to do it right and do it in a way that we don't rush it. Now we have that process in front of us. Thank you.