Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If I could start back down in Alberta and B.C. I attended a water and hydrological conference that had all the specialists that come in to measure water, glaciers, snow packs, all the things in rivers and groundwater. And out of that meeting came a proposal that is going to go to the western Premiers to deal with making sure we build in resources for all these different involved agencies, provinces and territories to put adequate resources into the monitoring and evaluation of all the water for the reasons that my colleague talked about. As well, in addition, to try to track the very critical things like flow rates. Also built into our strategy is the plan and the need for us to, in partnership with the federal government, look at

trying to increase the number of monitoring stations that currently exist in the Northwest Territories. Of equal importance, of course, is to make sure that there’s adequate monitoring done in Alberta right up to the headwaters of the Athabasca and the Peace for us down here in the North. So there are a whole number of different places that we’re pushing to improve the monitoring. Because we recognize and agree, as well, that our baseline information is very poor and in the North our knowledge about groundwater is almost non-existent. That’s one-third of the hydrological cycle and it leaves a huge gap in our ability to plan effectively.