Thank you very much, sir.
I don't think we were trying to be critical. I think we were trying to present a portrait of the current situation.
First, I'll go through your questions. Regarding the map, it isn't to scale, and I think you're quite right. This fracking is now going down several kilometres. It's going vertically. It's going horizontally. So that's the first one.
Then, second, in terms of what the problem is, I would say—and you sound more on top of it, certainly, than I am—the question is whether Health Canada and Environment Canada are looking at that list, for example, and right now the answer is no. We've said in this report that some of the chemicals that are used have been classified as toxic substances in other applications. That would be the first part, and that then is a federal obligation.
A second part is whether the chemicals are not transported because of issues related to, for example, the back-flow. So it's not only the chemicals going in, but also then what else is coming out in addition to the chemicals used, and I'll give you one example. In Nova Scotia there are now two tailings ponds that have been sitting for seven years because radioactive isotopes, which were sitting 10 kilometres down, came out in the back-flow. That can't be transported.
I think it would be great to pose your question to officials from Health Canada and Environment Canada: are they aware of those manifests?