Thank you, Mr. Chair. Like I stated before, operationally the two departments work well together. It doesn't create a conflict or an overkill on inspections. You referred to land use permits or water licence. Of course, we don't issue those; those are issued, I'm sure you know, through the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board or the Tlicho Land and Water Board or the Wek'eezhii Land and Water Board. Sorry, the Sahtu and the Gwich'in. So we don't handle the ISR in the regulatory boards, but our inspectors do not complicate them applying for a permit or a water licence. When they get one, they have terms and conditions that are put into the land use permit, for example, and our inspectors then go out and inspect the terms and conditions laid out by the land and water boards. We do the lands part. The ENR water inspectors do the water part of that permit.

I mean, perhaps it could cause confusion by a proponent thinking why it's Lands and Department of ENR, you know, both coming in on one permit; they may question that, but they don't lose anything by having two departments coming in. Thank you, Mr. Chair.