Mr. Chairman, we as a jurisdiction have been getting our thinking clear and our pieces and strategy in place to deal with water issues. There are a number of things that are happening. As I indicated earlier, we are now fully engaged in our transboundary processes with Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, laying out the negotiation process, the fact that we would like to have and we intend... we all want legally binding agreements that are going to speak to the broad areas of quality and quantity which, when you look at them in their individual detail, they are very complex issues tying in with groundwater and air, pollution issues.

The other big thing that I know is working in our favour is that the federal government recently, after a number of reports, the most recent one by Dr. Schindler and Dr. Erin Kelly that prove beyond a shadow of any kind of reasonable doubt that there were significant issues related to the oil sands, such to the degree that the federal government, Mr. Barrett -- I believe. I think it started initially with Minister Prentice -- Minister Barrett picked it up and they committed to a 90-day process, which is currently underway, to set up a monitoring what they have characterized as a world-class monitoring system for this part of the country for the downstream jurisdictions and areas of northern Alberta and, of course, the Northwest Territories. We met with Minister Kent. We made the case that it has to have as broad a scope as possible. They can’t narrow it down so narrow that it doesn’t do the job. We have the benefit of having Dr. Kelly on this board. We also have the benefit the jurisdictions

ready to go. We have these pieces in place and we are moving as fast as we can, and the money we have in the budget is going to allow us to move forward to hopefully conclude these transboundary agreements, but we will always have to continue to be vigilant.

The downstream agreements are only going to be as strong as the quality of the monitoring and information that we get that assures us that we are being protected and that the conditions of the agreement are being met. Thank you.