Thank you, Chair.
For the past few days we've been travelling and hearing from various groups and stakeholders. We've heard from industry, from native groups, and from scientists. We are not scientists, but we are trying to pull together the big picture. The fact that there has been such a wide variance of conclusions drawn by the different groups in terms of something as simple as whether the water downstream is being affected by the oil sands is something that I think we all are somewhat struggling with.
Mr. Kuzmic, you talk about the fact that RAMP detected no changes to downstream water quality in 2007, which comes, as far as I can tell, in direct contrast to the results from 2008 that Dr. Schindler has drawn on in terms of levels of aluminum, PAHs, and mercury concentrations.
How do you reconcile what RAMP has found, or not, and what Dr. Schindler has found, or not?