Mr. Chairman, currently if you looked at a map from northern Alberta all the way down to the Arctic, in the NWT I think in the neighbourhood of about 148 different types of monitoring is going on. One of the challenges and problems is that it is often very disconnected, that companies are doing it. Some government agencies are doing it. Other government agencies are doing it. Different levels of government are doing it.

The other question and the big concern around the oil sands is: was it the right kind of monitoring? Were we testing for the right things in all of these exotic substances like naphthenic acids and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and those types of chemicals and substances that are very specific to that particular industrial activity? The design that the federal government is working on is going to have to capture that. We are going to be involved. We have somebody at the table. We are involved in that. We indicated to Minister Kent that, while we appreciated that, we want to be fully involved. We need to have the bilaterals done. We also made the case that if they want this to be really effective, they should have some Aboriginal representation on that board, as well, which has been one of the downsides to the process to date.

Those pieces are being put in place. Our challenge is going to be to make sure that what is being put in place is going to meet those needs. At the same time, we have to, and we are at work at this, trying

to better coordinate the significant amount of monitoring that is already done. That information often goes to different places and there is no one collection area clearinghouse of information. We have our own work to do with the systems we do have as well. Thank you.