Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, gentlemen, for being here. It's a long trip, I know. Thank you for making the effort to be here.
Mr. Jenkins, I wanted to go back to some of your comments, which really disturbed me, at the end of your testimony, when you were given an opportunity by Mr. Trost. I wanted to explore that a little bit.
You said that timelines are a huge problem in the Yukon context. Just this week, the government dispatched 10 ministers across the country to talk about the two-year timeline for regulatory reform, only to have it confirmed that in fact clock stoppages on behalf of a proponent of a project will delay way beyond two years, in most cases some of the largest projects we have. For example, in the context of the NWT, Imperial Oil was responsible for four years of delay—four years of delay—for the pipeline. It had nothing to do with the regulatory system.
I want to come back to the comments you made, which were really troubling for me, as a Canadian. You talked about undue influence by outsiders. You named the Yukon Conservation Society. You named the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and the David Suzuki Foundation. You said they were funnelling money from the United States. Can you tell us how you know that? How do you know they're funnelling money from the United States?