Robert C. McLeod

No. I appreciate the Member's comments. We appreciate the comments from his community. Again, that's one of the advantages of using traditional knowledge, because who knows the land better than they do, right? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, my understanding is that ENR does contract out the work to do the remediation on these on behalf of the Government of the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. No, Mr. Chair, I take the Member's point, and I will be glad to have a conversation with him, and we will have a discussion on the issue that was brought to his attention. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, my understanding is the land transfer agreement just has to be finalized, and again, my understanding is that we are very close to finalizing that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. We appreciate the suggestion from the Member. I am not quite sure if the agreements we have in place actually have those, but, I mean, I think it is a good suggestion. We will go back, have a look at those agreements and see if they have those, and if they do not, then we will look at maybe as we go forward trying to incorporate them into any further agreements, or see if there is opportunity to incorporate them into the existing agreements. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that is a concern that we did hear when we were in the Nahendeh, and the Member and I actually had an exchange on the hunting off the side of the road. Again, I said you cannot legislate common sense, and I stand by that.

The other one we heard when we were in the Nahendeh is actually what the Member has mentioned, hunting with lights. We are going to go back and have a look at that, because I take the leadership's point when they were saying that we have some people out there hunting with lights. They are not making clean shots. They are making a mess, and a...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we work in partnership with ITI, and Health and Social Services, and Lands, but our $200,000 appropriation is for development of best practices, policies, and regulations to support animal health; gap analysis in review of current waste resource practices and needs of the NWT; complete compiled list of current farming organizations and survey their work management practice; contracted veterinarian services, animal health monitoring, animal care and welfare outreach policy and program work; and review, analysis, and development of a framework to manage...

Yes, he can. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, to my right, I have Dr. Joe Dragon, who is the deputy minister of Environment and Natural Resources. To my left, I have Ms. Susan Craig, who is our director of corporate services. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, yes, we have completed our forest inventory. Thank you, Mr. Chair.