Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here.
I have a number of things. I want to start with the school at Attawapiskat.
The contamination under the school happened in 1989. That's 22 years ago. Subsequently, there were portables put basically on the same site, which meant that the kids were still sick and were being exposed to the diesel contamination.
This is 2011. I first heard about the situation in Attawapiskat in 2005. I understand that it takes a year to plan and that there have to be community consultations and a couple of years for construction, but this happened in 1989. Why does it take so long? It's glacial as a response to the needs of little kids and the educational needs of a community that needed a school in 1989. That was a long time ago. Why are we still waiting for a school in 2011?