Thank you, Mr. Chair. To go back to a question just before that, Mr. O'Reilly, when you mentioned devolution, the promise that we would be better at inspections than INAC, I was in the Land and Water Board system as chair for 15 years, and we worked with INAC all that time. Their inspections were quite adequate, so I don't know how much we would have to improve on them, although we have probably more frequency of inspections, even today.
The matrix has never been tweaked. It is the matrix that is used throughout Canada, basically the same system of risk management that you used and you based it on the operation, whether the history of the operator and whether they are more risk-prone than, say, a diamond mine. Then you determine your frequency of visits, inspections, based on how their operation is going and also based on an inspection itself. If the inspection turns out that there are no deficiencies, then you may not go in there every two weeks. It is not necessary. You go in there monthly.
So, it is not tweaked to make reductions. We would have lapsed dollars if we had not done a reduction in travel because our budget is adequate for the time being. I mean, if you want examples, I can give them to you in writing, but all you have to do if you want to see a reduced economy is go into the Sahtu, go into the Beaufort Delta.
In the Sahtu, there is no Husky Oil, there is no ConocoPhillips, who were in that fracking dilemma that they had, and Imperial Oil is handled by the federal government, by INAC. The proven field, that is all federal field. In the Beaufort Delta, all we have there is the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway where we are doing inspections. So there is a huge reduction in activity, but, you are right, there are water licences and permits out there, but a lot of them are not active. They are reporting, you know, on it but they are not active. So we are looking to target this year 766 inspections, and that is not all on operating facilities. Some of them are like highways; the ice road, for example. So there are a lot of other inspections that we do that are not related to an activity. Thank you, Mr. Chair.