Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I also rise in support of this motion. A domestic violence death review committee is something that I know our coroner has been interested in for some time. Our chief coroner has done a lot of work to bring forward recommendations and try to learn lessons that we should have been learning when these events have occurred and brought those forward through recommendations.

I know a number of Members have been a little bit uncomfortable, perhaps, in that we haven’t necessarily followed up as much as we should have to actually address a lot of those recommendations and...

I appreciate the fast work of the Minister. The Minister recently held public meetings about recreational leasing regulations in several communities. This was a good initiative and I applaud it. Presumably, access roads on land and ice would be part and parcel of any new rules regulating what may or may not be done by people holding recreational leases.

Did the Minister hear any references or concerns from the participants in these meetings about the building of ice or land roads to their leases, or casual users of the common concerns about interference from roads? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is a follow-up on my Member’s statement regarding the issues out at Prelude Lake and the dangerous proliferation of unauthorized ice roads and the difficulty people are having navigating on it with their snowmobiles.

What regulations are in place to control and regulate the building of ice roads on NWT lakes, to make sure that roads are built and used rationally and safely for both people and the land? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment. For each horizontally fractured well in the Northwest Territories to date:

What was the source of the water used and how much was consumed?

What was the quantity of greenhouse gases emissions due to flaring, and how many days did flaring occur?

What was the amount and composition of each additive used during fracking, and how is the flow of unrecovered produced water tracked underground?

How much produced water has been recovered to date, what chemicals are in the recovered water, how is it being...

I realize this is not an easy issue, but I also recognize that there’s been darn little done in the seven-plus years and people are unsafe. So, the opposite of a hero is somebody who fails to act and is responsible for accidents, where people get injured or killed. We already know that not far down the line this has happened already.

Is the Minister willing to accept that responsibility without doing anything? He’s got the experts. I’m throwing ideas out there. That’s fine. If my ideas don’t work, come up with one.

Will the Minister come up with a good interim solution and put things in place...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to follow up on my Member’s statement earlier today. I have a very simple question for the Minister of Transportation. I’m sure he anticipates it.

Will he in fact finally address the Highway No. 3 issue between Niven access road and downtown Yellowknife for the safety of our residents during the life of this Assembly? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A primary function of government is to ensure citizens are safe. In my mind, we are failing on at least one front and within sight of this building yet. I am speaking about the stretch of Highway No. 3 from the Niven Lake access to 49th Avenue.

While GNWT and the city have argued over jurisdiction of this piece of highway and the costs associated with remediation and maintenance of it, an entire subdivision has been built and grown into a busy and vital community right across the highway. But thousands of Niven Lake residents have been left without safe, convenient...

I’ll accept that and maybe just ask the Minister to confirm that so that he does know later. I’m willing to go forward for now.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I also would like to commend committee and the Minister on all the work done on this bill. I think it has come a long ways from when we first saw it, and I think a lot of people were startled about the amount of consultation with the people being affected that had been done and the shortcomings in that process. I’m sure we’ve all learned from that and that we can’t expect any entity to speak for the people other than the people themselves when we go out and do our consultations. I think that’s a lesson learned in this. Had we been more thorough on that front, I don’t...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the Rules of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, dated May 27, 2015.

Mr. Speaker, this document reflects the comprehensive review of the rules undertaken by the Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures to modernize our rules and to better reflect our current practices and procedures. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.