Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair, and I appreciate the time here.
I feel this opportunity is clearly one that can be determined very quickly in the modern age. If I look at the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act, when it was finally put in place, and I'm thinking from 1999 until 2004, which would be a five-year period, it was in need of a review then. I sat on that board. I know that was the case because we did have enough projects. We did have an understanding of the nature of what we were working with at that point, and many very serious concerns were raised at that time.
The Liberal government of the day continually wanted to review how they could make it work better. Within the five-year period of the act being put in place there were plenty of reasons to review it.
So I don't see that there is any harm in this. This is a good idea. This works for the people of the north because, once again, if they do have problems with this legislation and it becomes apparent, they have no guaranteed recourse to get it changed within Parliament. They're relying on the goodwill of the government to bring forward those changes and that, Mr. Chair, is something I would not want to have as assurance for any of the northerners.