Thank you.
This is probably for Environment Canada. We had the Beaufort project representatives here, and a couple of professors made the point that there's no technology at the moment to clean up oil spills under the ice. The minister talked about the importance of development of oil and gas in the north and about the huge reserves. Some 25% percent of the world's remaining reserves of oil and 33% of gas are found there.
I'm wondering what work Environment Canada is doing—what research it's funding, etc.—to deal with this lack of technology that would hinder the minister's objective of developing the oil and gas in the north.