Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mine is more of an observation contribution or notice here. Having considered some of the previous studies that I was involved in and seeing industry on monitoring and mitigating the impacts of wildlife habitat and the community as a stakeholders to this government contributing their efforts through self-management initiatives, in the community of Deline several years ago leadership got together and had a public meeting and set an understanding to the people that there would be no harvesting until further notice.

The whole community got together and really accepted that. I was really surprised at the extent they would go in preserving their herd and working with the department at the region office in Norman Wells to participate in the caribou survey.

Some of the applications that I've seen with industry, the industry had wildlife habitation movement monitored by in-field cameras. That data was collected and shared with the region's Renewable Resources Councils. It gives me confidence that large impacts would be analyzed prior to everybody's approval and prior to the initiating of the project itself. These studies and these movements on habitat would be included in the application.

The recent application we've just seen is the Canyon Creek all-weather road. The volumes of data that was collected right from vegetation to wildlife species of different sources. I kind of take that into account when we move forward to discuss, let's take, for example, the Whati. I'm quite certain there would be a lot of supporting data to the habitat of the chosen waterway for that particular infrastructure. I just share that with committee. Thank you, Mr. Chair.