Robert C. McLeod

One of the things we’re working on is updating the Highway Emergency Alerting Protocol. As far as the interim measures go, I mean, I mentioned before that we’re trying to get some first responder training so we have some folks that are able to respond. We’re looking at different types of equipment they might need.

As far as implementing an interim service, that’s a huge undertaking, and I think we’d have to, as a department, have a look at that. We’d have to do our due diligence on that because it is going to be a huge undertaking. Even though it would be just an interim measure, there’s a lot...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’m assuming the Member’s talking about the buildings that the community governments put up? Residences too? Well, as far as the residences go, I mean, if they’re built by the NWT Housing Corp, obviously we would inspect each one of the buildings that we put up. As far as the community buildings go, I believe the assistant fire marshal would check to make sure all the codes are met, and again, depending on who designed the building, I think there are times when there are site visits made by the building designer. The architects that design the building, I think they...

Thank you. I appreciate all the Members supporting their colleague. It shows up in the regional office. So it wouldn’t show up in the headquarters. It shows up in the regional office. Thank you.

The members of the working group are the Department of Health and Social Services, Department of Justice, Transportation, Municipal and Community Affairs.

We have the fire marshal and the assistant fire marshals that cover each region.

Thank you. I’m not sure about the report. We’ll do some digging around and see if we can find the report. We continue to work with the community governments on their water treatment plants to make sure that they’re adequately funded to operate these water treatment plants. So we’ll continue to do that work. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The federal money that was available as free money, as the Member likes to call it, we’ve taken it up pretty well every year. For some reason it wasn’t available to us last year. Every year since its inception, I think we have taken our share of it.

As far as being published publicly, no, it’s not, but I mean, I have committed to the Member and he talks about the importance of emergency plans, and we recognize the importance of emergency plans. MACA has been having to deal with these for so many years. We’re working with the 15 communities that need to update their plans. We’re working with them to try and get their emergency plans updated. I have committed to trying to compile as much information as possible, finding somewhere we can put it so that everyone has access it, and I will honour that commitment. If the Member is looking for...

Thank you, Madam Chair. We recognize that there is going to be a lot of activity around the Sahtu. I think our staff can prepare for that. Our superintendents and our regional staff will work closely with communities, probably identify some of the challenges that they may be facing.

Again, we go in there at the communities’ invitation. We work with them very closely on this issue. I can assure the Member that we know. We will have the assistant superintendents in all regions too. I think that will go a long way. We will work very closely with community and do our part in supporting them in...

Well, the working group are looking at all these different issues right now and they’re coming up with ways, some options, and also looking at the cost. I think it’s been mentioned in this House before, if we were to look at the cost of implementing the overall ambulance service across the Northwest Territories, it would be quite high. So they’re exploring all these options.

As far as an actual timeline goes, I don’t have the actual timeline. I know that they are looking at a number of different issues, but I will keep the Members up to date on the work that they’re doing and hopefully we can...