Thank you for your question.
Mr. Chairman, I guess I think the important thing to point out here is that more money for impacts monitoring was included in budget 2010, but throughout the period, Environment Canada scientists and Environment Canada have continued to fund monitoring and research throughout the north. There's always the question, as the north is so vast, of your having to make decisions about how you target the places where you are going to focus your monitoring, and some of that comes from trying to anticipate where development is likely to occur next. But Environment Canada has continued to monitor. We have long-term monitoring programs, both on the wildlife side and the pollution side, that have been ongoing since the cumulative impacts monitoring program began about ten years ago.
So I think the answer is that we welcome this additional funding, but we have largely been able to keep our monitoring going on a regular basis over the years for the north.