Thank you very much.
I was very happy to hear the minister reaffirm the Turning the Corner commitment to targets. I regard them--and I'm glad to hear the minister regards them--as fixed, firm targets, not moving targets. As I saw from the minister's evidence, the only thing that's moving is our progress in reaching those targets.
I know that greenhouse gases are important, and they certainly also attract a lot of publicity. But I'd like to direct my inquiries to another area, to the question of cleaning up contaminated sites. That's a very important aspect of the job the department does. We have a number of known sites across Canada and perhaps others that are not known, some that are under federal jurisdiction and some that are not.
I would be grateful if you could give me an idea of what the role of the department is in relation to contaminated sites and what the budgetary implications are.