Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I believe it's very positive and essential for us to participate in the project, and the leverage is huge. The point I was going to make is that for the small contribution from the governments towards our operating expenses...the loan with TransCanada is now in excess of $140 mil

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we've spent a great deal of time with the Deh Cho. They're the only right-of-way group that is not currently a member of the Aboriginal Pipeline Group. We visited the communities. We've certainly indicated the benefits that would be provided to them through membership or own

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't have that number at my fingertips, but it's one I can certainly get for you. It's not a large number.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's not a large number, that's right.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, that's correct.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Under the current regime, that's correct.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are benefits, as I indicated in my presentation, to the Mackenzie Valley and to the people of the Mackenzie Valley, perhaps not to the GNWT. But the Government of the Northwest Territories has been very supportive of this project, because of the benefits it brings to the pe

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't think so. Remember, construction doesn't start in earnest until 2016. The government and the aboriginal groups negotiated that socio-economic fund with very specific benchmarks, specific points in time by which certain events would be accomplished and then certain dolla

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would say I'm optimistic. The Northern Projects Management Office has been set up under CanNor to help to streamline the regulatory process and industry's understanding of that process to achieve timely results.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Logistics in the north are difficult. There is no highway or transportation corridor anywhere near the pipeline right-of-way, other than the Mackenzie River. So the Mackenzie River effectively becomes the highway. This makes logistics difficult. Material is shipped to Hay River b

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  At this point, there are conflicting studies, Mr. Bevington, and that's part of the problem.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't have a statistic handy, but in general, I can tell you that even in northern Ontario or northern Alberta, pipelines are constructed during the winter months; your water courses are frozen, your ground is frozen, and your environmental impact is far lower in the winter. I

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's linked to your previous question, actually, on the highway. The Alaska Highway pipeline, for example, has a highway paralleling the pipeline for the entire length. You can do exactly what you've said, and that is build the summer construction segments in the summer and t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would agree with Mr. Quin in part. In the Mackenzie Valley the review process by both the joint review panel and by the National Energy Board was done very much on a local basis to accommodate local input. The decisions were actually made in the north. The problem in the case o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Exactly.