Thank you, Chair.
I appreciate all the witnesses who are here in person today and those who are joining virtually.
To Mr. McLean's point, I don't think we have just a communications problem here. We might have a cover-up problem. We don't have just a pollution problem. I think we have some serious governance problems at play here.
The Alberta Energy Regulator first learned of the seepage happening in May of last year, but it never actually informed anybody until the environmental protection order was issued for the second event, which was in February of this year. Why was this ongoing seepage not reported to the federal government, or the Northwest Territories for that matter, considering the intergovernmental agreements that are in place between the Alberta and federal governments and also the Alberta and Northwest Territories governments?