Thanks, Madam Chair. I want to thank my colleague from Yellowknife North, asked a bunch of a questions that I was going to start into.
But I think if we don't start to calculate this amount, we just pawn this off on future generations, and that's not a good way of doing business, let alone running a government.
Yeah, when I saw the amount, I was, quite frankly, astounded at how low it is. You know, the diamond mines each - the big ones, they have hundreds of millions of dollars set aside in financial security to deal with their closure obligations. And all of our assets to properly dispose, take them down, whatever, only comes to $70 million? I just find that a very -- seems to me to be intuitively very, very low when you think about all of the landfills, sewage lagoons, fuel tanks, the buildings that we own, this seems to be extremely low. As I said, the diamond mines, they've got hundreds of millions of dollars set aside as financial security to deal with this.
So is there something different about the way that those guys have to set aside financial security and the way that this asset retirement obligation is calculated that I'm not aware of? Thanks, Madam Chair.