Robert C. McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I won’t take up too much time here. We’ve heard the concerns of committee and they did mention that they were going to raise these concerns as we go page by page. We’ll look forward to the exchanges we have on each individual page. I will hold my comments until then. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the Member's point is taken. As I said before, we do work with the communities, and then communities and others take responsibility for the fire. If it's threatening their area again, ENR I think has demonstrated in the past that they will step up to the plate when it's needed. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

My apologies to the Member, but would he be able to repeat the question?

Yes, I do, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair we can commit to working with the community with the resources that they do have. As Dr. Kelly said, when there is an emerging fire or if there is an emergency situation then ENR would work with them to complete a firebreak, but we will continue to work with the communities.

I think the Member's question may be is: does ENR have the funding to do it, and we don't at this time, to do firebreaks, but we do work with the communities that do have money at their disposal to complete firebreaks? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have a pretty good idea or we do know, but, as I said before, it is a Finance lead and I think it's more appropriate that your questions be directed to Finance. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following three documents entitled "Government of the Northwest Territories Response to Committee Report 418(2): Report on the Review of the 201415 Public Accounts," "FollowUp Letter for Oral Question 50518(2): PeopleSoft Public Service Human Resource Reports," and "FollowUp Letter for Oral Question 60618(2): Status of Transboundary Water Management Agreements." Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

We appreciate the Member's comments and we will look to do a better job at promoting ourselves. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We will endeavour to get that information to the Member immediately.

I take the Member's point. As far as the road, I mean, it's still, very, very early in the discussion stage. We may not see a road for a number of years. If we see a road at all, again, that's contingent on the federal government and the funding that they might have and then as well as funding from the Northwest Territories government once we get through our budget process and we have the resources to commit to these types of projects.

So I can assure the Member that we will continue to do our part to ensure that there is a balance, but we do like to see economic development but not at all...