I am Robert Sopuck, from Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette. I have been in the environmental and natural resources management field for about 35 years, starting off life as a fisheries biologist. I did work on the original Mackenzie Valley pipeline, environmental studies in the Berger commission days. I did work in the Arctic.
Also, my wife and I live on a 480-acre farm south of Riding Mountain National Park. We live in the biosphere reserve, and 320 acres of our farm are under a conservation agreement with the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
In other environmental work I've done, I was environmental director at a paper mill; I worked in the area of agricultural wildlife policy for the Delta Waterfowl Foundation; and I did a project called Smart Green, which was an analysis of Canadian environmental policy for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. I even spent the winter of 2009-2010 doing environmental work in the oil sands, living in an oil sands camp. So I have had a fair bit of background in the environment field.
I was elected in the byelection of 2010 and re-elected this May, of course.
My last point is that from my time in the Arctic, living with the Inuit, I do have an Inuit nickname, and that's Pungniq. You'll have to ask the Minister of Health what that means.