Michael Miltenberger

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That cap has been removed.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following three documents, entitled “Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 5, 2014-2015;” “Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures) No. 3, 2014-2015;” and “Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2015-2016.” Thank you.

I would be happy to concur with the Member that he is a fountain of good ideas. We are 270 days left until the next election. We have our to-do lists, work lists that are fully subscribed to. We are working to implement all those plus some others that have been added on over the course of the last year or so.

The Member raises a very legitimate, good issue. The issue of putting a fee, a recovery fee on each barrel is there. It’s a question of the resources and the time. We have an Environment Fund that is being used and managed carefully to do all the things that currently are in place. To...

Thousands, Mr. Speaker, and they would be invariably in areas where there were old abandoned sites either for exploration or some type of small mining venture from the days of yore, but a lot of it tied to exploration sites.

That program is handled through the Power Corporation, and they’ve been taking care of the communications. If there are specific concerns from the Member, then I would be happy to talk to them about what may be needed to be done extra to ensure that those concerns could be addressed.

Thank you. I’ll get the deputy to be more specific. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This position which came over with part of the devolution transfer is going to have a key role in the region. It’s going to give us a specialized person on water for the first time in the region. The issue of tracking, understanding and helping with plain language, trying to keep track of all the things that are happening in the region in terms of compliance and spills would be one of the functions. But what I would ask, Mr. Chairman, with your indulgence, is the deputy to speak a bit further to some of the specifics in terms of the job requirements.

Thank you. First, if I just may comment, this full cost accounting, the final supplementary request for the fire season to close the books was reviewed this morning in committee and is in the process to come before the House. So, that work has been done. It was in and out of committee this morning. So it’s not quite accurate to say that the Legislature is being asked to take things on faith or without having seen what the costs are. We have demonstrated that, I think, through the supplementary requests.

In regards to the Tuk-Inuvik highway in terms of the cash and the impact on our short-term...

We’ll provide that information. In fact, we’ll commit to provide the information for all the sites across the territory so people can see the length and breadth of the network and the coverage it provides. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It’s not clear to me the question. Have we done a full cost accounting of the fire season? Have we done a full cost accounting of this proposal? If the Member could elaborate. Thank you.