I’m so happy, Madam Chair, because I know the people in Fort Good Hope will be happy because, again, the application by Imperial Oil is to take out billions of litres of water and use it for their operations and half of those billions are going back into the Mackenzie River and flowing down towards Fort Good Hope and Tsiigehtchic and down to the Arctic Ocean. So this person is going to be a key person to work with the community of Fort Good Hope.
My understanding again, and I appreciate the Minister’s response, is this person then going to be available to help the residents of Fort Good Hope, because they have some major concerns about this situation here and this is a real concern for the people in Fort Good Hope. This has been going on for many, many years, since the early ‘20s, and this is a long time, you know, and so this should be on everybody’s radar, especially in our region.
Am I correct in my understanding that this person in the Sahtu region is going to be looking at this type of situation in regards to the water quality in the Mackenzie River as per our Sahtu Land Claim Agreement? Thank you.