Michael Miltenberger

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have focused the attention of the Environment Fund folks on the current recycling plus expanding into electronic waste. On our to-do list are things like barrels and vehicles. I was just mentioning to the deputy, I remember in Fort Smith last summer they came into the South Slave, I’m not sure if they made it to Yellowknife, but they came into town and we had mountains, literally, of fridges and stoves and washers and dryers and they shredded it all up and put it into cubes. I think they did Hay River as well. I’m not sure if they came to Yellowknife. But they didn...

We have an ongoing commitment to work with all the communities in terms of making sure their FireSmart Program is put into effect. In communities, for example, in the early parts of the fire season if fire crews are not busy, they can work on that and they have done that in many communities, help with firebreaks. We have staff that can assist with the design. So, yes, we are prepared to work with communities to see how we can advance those critical initiatives.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When I look at ’14-15, I see $3.889 million versus $3.6 million from ’13-14. So it’s gone up incrementally right from ’12-13, so I’m not quite sure what the Member’s question was.

I listened to many issues raised in the Member’s statement and his questions and his interest in getting a lot of detailed information, so I’ll take that question as notice. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s a gentleman by the name of Mr. Andrew Applejohn.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My note here says the Milk Container Program was added February 15, 2010.

There is baseline work being done, as I discussed with the Member during question period. I’d have to check and get back to the Member whether it includes specifically fish lakes, but I’ll commit to do that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We will provide all the existing policies and directives that govern securities and then will continue to be in place and that will potentially at that point, as we devolve and evolve, may require adjusting, but we will pull that together. We have the National Energy Board. It has set security requirements, but we will pull those documents together from across the territory and we will make sure that they are passed on to committee.

The next big step for us in terms of waste reduction, and I’ll get the deputy to provide the detail, is we’ve been working on an electronic waste program so that we could look at diverting the tonnes of screens and computers and all this other electronic waste out of our landfills. I’ll ask the deputy to provide some detail.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I can unreservedly, unequivocally commit that we are going to continue on the path of partnerships with the Aboriginal governments as we’ve demonstrated with all the bilateral agreements we’ve signed, the way we’ve done the Wildlife Act, the Devolution Agreement, the Intergovernmental Council. It is part of who we are and I would differ somewhat with the Member’s assertion or assumption that we have the same regimes as Nunavut and the Yukon. I think we have a similarly unique arrangement and structure here in the Northwest Territories that reflects the people that live...