That’s okay. I’m used to that. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, because I think we do have some legal standing when it comes to the agreements we have with the Mackenzie basin watershed agreements and the other jurisdictions. I think we also have to, I know Mr. Yakeleya raised this question about water rights and whatnot. I think under the land claims agreement and treaty and rights in Canada, Aboriginal First Nations people do have rights to water, regardless of quality, quantity, rate of flow. It’s in the modern day treaties and is recognized internationally that they do have rights to water. I think, if anything, that’s something that we should be working on to maybe use that as an argument going forward.
I think people up and down the valley and even the Mackenzie Delta, we are concerned about what’s happened with McMurray. If you ever have a breach in one of the major dykes there, you’re talking about polluting the whole Mackenzie basin. If you ever have a breach of one of the large tar ponds in McMurray. I think we have to be realistic that chances of that happening might be one chance in a thousand or one chance in a million, but the chance is there. I think we have to be cognizant of that and we have to be prepared for that.
I’d just like to ask the Minister if we have ever looked at the possibility of not only working with the federal government but also looking at the international court or the United Nations and using the UN declaration or looking at the possibility of the rights of the indigenous peoples that was just signed off. If we use those tools as arguments that we can use. I know we can’t force people to come to the table and sign these bilateral agreements with us, but we have to realize that we are... Anything that happens upstream we’re the ones that are going to be affected the greatest because we’re at the headwaters. We’re downstream of all these resource developments in the southern jurisdictions. Have we considered those as alternatives?