Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Vaughan and your team, for being with us today.
I wanted to follow up on the discussion about contaminated sites. I think you've acknowledged here in your remarks that we started with about 22,000 contaminated sites, and as I understand it, about 42% of these have already been cleared as of February 2012.
This is a 15-year federal plan to clean up the plants and we're only at the halfway point. That would be my point. We're saying that maybe there are 13,000 sites remaining, and of course, we are concerned about that. But it seems to me that if we've already cleared a substantial number of those, that we are making progress, and therefore, comments about leaving this to future generations fail to recognize the fact that we've already taken measures in the short time that this plan has been under way to clean up a lot of those sites.
Would you not agree with that?