Thanks, Mr. Chairman. Yes, that's what I was worried about. Look, the Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program is established under federal legislation, the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act. It's part 6. It's the audit function and state of the environment function for the MVRMA. If there is money to be taken out to support legislative initiatives, where is the legislation to actually set up the Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program to a greater extent than what is already in Part 6 of the MVRMA?

If we're using this as a pot to shuffle off money for other departmental activities, in my view, that's wrong. This Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program, we got money out of the federal government as part of devolution to carry out this responsibility and implement it. If we're now using that money to fund other work internally that ENR should have been doing or that FMB should be coming up with more money, that's just not right.

Again, why are we taking money out of the Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program, which is set up under Part 6 of the MVRMA, to do audit and state of the environment reporting to support other internal activities of the department? Thanks, Mr. Chair.