Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the Member for that question. In regard to what we have been doing, we’ve been working with AANDC as well as NEB and the Member is aware that they’ve delivered community information sessions in the Sahtu region on the issue of

fracking. We, as I mentioned earlier, are planning a trip with the Economic Development and Infrastructure committee and we’re looking forward to that. I think in that we will get a chance to discuss the issue with academia, with environmental groups and also with industry. So I think we’ll get a good balance on that tour and certainly look forward to that.

Also, we will be getting in front of committee sometime here in the next little while and I look forward to that briefing that we have EDI, and perhaps the Member will come to that briefing where we’ll update Members on activity in the Sahtu. We can have a good discussion there as well.

What I wanted to mention was that between the Department of ITI and the Department of ENR and also Health and Social Services, we’re working together to outline the economic opportunities, environmental concerns and human health issues related to the use of nonconventional hydraulic fracturing techniques on the Northwest Territories, and we expect that the work would culminate in a discussion document and we’ll have that document able to review in advance of the drilling season next year. So we’re working on that and it’s important that we continue to work to get all the facts on the table, so we can make that balanced approach.

Just in relation to the Member’s comments about the MVPO and, again, I was before committee and I listened to committee during the business planning process. We are reviewing that and we will be moving forward with decisions on that and a communications strategy related to that in the near future. Thank you.