Glen Abernethy

Just in closing, I appreciate all the work that’s been done in this area. This is one area that I think the department could push harder. If you look at our map, if our water is ruined, that affects, out of 33 communities, that immediately affects I think it’s 25 of them, which are on the downriver side of the water coming down that river. So 25, I think. I can recheck but 25 communities will be immediately affected if the quality of the water changes. So this is obviously something that’s important to us in our future, to all the people, and please push. Please push hard on this one. Please...

Mr. Chairman, thank you for that. Once again, I appreciate all the work that you and your department are doing on this, as many are fond to say, water is life. With respect to the monitoring, what are the feds doing and will we have easy and accessible sort of access to the information that is coming out of that? In particular, where is most of the monitoring taking place? Is it immediately downstream of where the oil sands are located? Is it further downstream? Is there any monitoring going on this side of the NWT/Alberta border that will give us some warning about what is on its way just in...

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am not actually 100 percent sure this is the right area, but scanning through, I can’t seem to find the area that might be applicable. Given that this is policy and strategic planning, this I think is the right area.

Early in the life of this Assembly there was talk about a land use framework. I thought or understood that would be coming forward from the Department of ENR for the end of the life of this Assembly, but in looking through this document, I don’t find any reference to it. I am wondering what is the status of that. Is that something that has completely...

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Next on my list is Mr. Krutko.

I know the LHOs are incredibly busy and adding a whole bunch of work may not be good for them, but I think there can be some generalization done as to what the findings are, whether or not people are finding themselves not in arrears.

I was wondering, given the good news that we’ve received, whether the Minister would commit to putting some additional pressure on the LHOs to get out there and do the assessments. I mean, the news is good, right? I mean, we have individuals who don’t owe. Let’s use that information to help encourage more people coming in. I was wondering if I could get the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of the NWT Housing Corporation. They follow up on my Member’s statement earlier today.

In October I asked the Minister about some outstanding arrears that individuals in the Public Housing Program have and particularly concerned about the perceived “false” arrears that are out there. The Minister committed to working with the LHOs to have people come in and do reassessments to determine whether in fact their arrears were accurate or not. I was wondering if the Minister could give us a bit of an update on the progress of that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the Minister for his comments. Just following up on Mr. Ramsay’s comments, please get the bridge built on time and within budget. That would be fantastic.

There are some other things that I think are quite positive in here. I’m happy to see progress on the Mackenzie Valley Highway in any capacity. I think that’s great news. Moving forward, obviously, it would be great if as much as possible we can involve Northerners in any construction and planning that takes place. I know that there are different groups from different communities that are very eager...

Mr. Chairman, clearly there is a significant number of challenges in that area. I am intrigued. You talked about basically hundreds of places they are doing assessments of the water. It is difficult to pull them together. Is that actually part of the fed’s plan, is to pull together the data from all of those different individuals or groups or organizations or companies, pulling together the data? Are they only going to be compiling the data they collect themselves? The reason I ask is, if they are not, why would we wait for somebody else to compile it? Is there not an opportunity for us, if...