Thank you very much for that.
It was made very clear to me in the first meetings I had with the communities. Shortly after the issuing of the environmental protection order, I had the opportunity to drive up to Fort McMurray and then to Fort Chipewyan to sit with community leaders and councils. They made it very clear that they wanted to be fully informed, and they expected to be informed. The fact that they hadn't heard about it was a significant concern.
From that day forward, we committed to providing weekly updates to the communities. We've done so since that time. I also committed to reaching out to chiefs, MĂ©tis presidents, as well as the mayor of the RM to alert them of things they should be aware of that were coming in the weekly reports.
We proceeded with those calls right through and into the summer until, frankly, they asked me to stop calling, that the information was coming to their agencies as well, and they were comfortable that the people in their organizations who needed to know what was happening were getting those updates.
We provided—