Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to talk to the issue here, the first one being the land and water management, more specific to the water management with the transboundary agreements that are being discussed with the governments and other governments here and the amount of I call it in our language, poison, this fluid coming down the south part of this Territory in the Slave River into the Slave Lake and down the Mackenzie River. I think I want to ask if there are any types of strong monitoring and provisions in place that we could monitor the effects of the chemicals coming down. I want to ask the Minister in terms of how we are dealing with this issue here.

We may not see too much of the issue here, but the people down the Mackenzie Valley here, the region I represent, rely a lot on this river here. We are very concerned, especially when I heard on the radio, CBC, that Fort Good Hope had a fish study. It looks pretty scary, the water and the fish and that. I think this should be deemed as an emergency measure in terms of putting in some strong mechanisms and tell the B.C. government to put their garbage somewhere else, not down the Mackenzie River. What is this in terms of giving strength to this Minister here, the government here, to put a strong mechanism in place to say you are no longer allowed to dump your garbage in the Mackenzie River? There are people out here that survive on this as we survive on caribou. This is something that is very important to us. If there is no good water, how are we going to live?

We have to follow what our elders are talking about this water here. That is one question I want to ask the Minister. This is really important to me and my people, good water even down to the Beaufort Sea. Our people’s lives are depending on this. I’m fed up with the Alberta government, B.C. government dumping their garbage in our system here. What can we do in terms of protest or put a good strong stance to this Alberta tar sands and other stuff that say divert your rear somewhere else. I don’t want them to stick a handle on this issue because poison is poison, Mr. Chairman.