Bob McLeod

Right now we’re focusing on our government. As well as having an advisory team we also have internal departmental teams, and I’m pleased to say that we have five interdepartmental teams that have undertaken a host of initiatives so that we’ll have a greener workplace and with the active participation of all of our employees. Thank you.

In addition to some of the activities that Mr. Bromley outlined, we have developed some other activities that I would like to note such as in-office composting, purchasing recycled bond paper, we’ve purchased bicycles for interoffice travel, also hybrid pilots. We also organize healthy lifestyle activities, we conduct in-house waste audits, have established recycling stations in every department, and we organize staff awareness contests. All of these activities play a role in improving our workplace and, certainly, with utilizing the deputy minister committee, we use that to make sure that it...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Greening the workplace is a very important initiative that this government undertook as part of its 20/20 human resource strategic planning. What we’ve accomplished is we’ve set up an interdepartmental advisory Green Team that meets on a regular basis. We have representation from the majority of the departments and they make recommendations to our deputy minister committee on a quarterly basis. The green advisory team has developed an action and terms of reference that they’re working on. Thank you.

Yes, I would, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That money is used to help Aboriginal governments build capacity, get ready for the pipeline. So we provide contribution funding to the Inuvialuit, the Gwich’in, the Sahtu and some communities in the Deh Cho. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

The land owners, Indian and Northern Affairs, have undertaken a scoping session or scoping work to determine the nature of the cleanup and how much it would cost to clean it up. They are moving towards cleaning up the area. The communications we’ve had with them they’ve said they’re prepared to turn over the land for the park tomorrow if we’re prepared to accept it as is and pay for the cleanup. Obviously that’s not in our best interest to do so. They’re not prepared to enforce it, we don’t have a petty trespass act to have the authority to keep anybody off federal lands, so other than to post...

We have been fulfilling all of the consultation requirements. As we go forward if there are additional consultation requirements, we will be conducting those as well.

We are committed to making hydrokinetic work, so we will work with NTEC to place it in a location where it has the best chance to succeed.

Generally the community harvesters or local wildlife committees dealing with hunters and trappers and, in some cases, fishermen. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, I do, Mr. Chairman.