That surprised me as well. I know from own time in the Mackenzie Valley that the streams hadn't changed from the 1970s to the 1990s. To have to do that assessment all over again, given the multitude of reports from the 1970s, on almost the very same streams, seemed a little redundant and expensive to me.
I take your point about the tragedy of that process. I think it can be called that because those communities up there are impoverished now, and may remain that way for the foreseeable future, because the pipeline was not built. I think there are real consequences for communities with these processes.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.