Thank you, Mr. Chair. So we don't get to make the decisions about development in another jurisdiction but we do get to provide input into those decisions, and there's lots of ways that we can do that. So at the first level, we have a transboundary agreement and there's notification clauses in that agreement so we understand and know what development's going to happen. And there's monitoring in that agreement as well. So we get information from Alberta on the monitoring in Alberta so we have an early warning system with respect to water quality and quantity as things are coming towards the border.

We also work together with Alberta to do extensive monitoring at the border. So we have fish monitoring, bug monitoring, water monitoring, quality and quantity, to be watching at the borders to see if there's any changes that are happening. And some of that is community-based monitoring which involves communities and Indigenous governments in that monitoring. Other is monitoring with some of the academics and scientists from different places that come and help to support us in that work. We have scientists at ENR; as well we engage experts from outside ENR to review the documents that we do get if we need particular expertise that we don't have. So some of the data gaps that they're looking into right now, the information they provide to us, we will be reviewing it and we'll have experts review it as well.

The agreement itself does not stop us from being able to intervene in a project. So we have gone and provided comments on Suncor, most recently, as well as some in BC that we've done previously. And the agreement doesn't stop us from having legal mechanisms available to us should the agreement not be able to -- if we're not able to get to where we need to be in that case.

So there's lots of ways that this could ultimately work out and our preferred way is to work with Alberta to get the information and collaborate on the monitoring and make sure that we're getting the information we need from the monitoring south of the border and analyze that and work with Indigenous governments, as I mentioned in my previous answer, you know, through all of those committees, to put forward our perspective and make sure that it's very clear what the residents of the Northwest Territories' interests are with all of these transboundary matters that are before us. Thank you, Mr. Chair.