Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just getting to the single-window service centres, the GSOs are really important to all the communities that have them. I know they are part-time but hopefully we could look at possibly -- communities that have a huge workload, for example, whether it's Fort McPherson or Aklavik, larger centres like this, maybe we could go full-time, that would be great.

As you know, having this service for the communities is very important. They help a lot of our elders and people in the community fill out any forms. As you may know, every year the elders have to fill in their home...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Same topic. Could the Minister tell me if this money is mainly money used just to leverage other money from the federal government? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, on page 70 I'd like to just ask the Minister about the area of contaminated sites and remediation. On the contaminated sites and remediation there's $319,000 in there. I see that this is for developing programs and policies to manage and remediate contaminated sites. So I guess my question is: is there a budget and how does the whole budgeting work between when you actually are remediating the site, when you hire a contractor to go in there and do remediation, where does that money come from? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I move that committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources at this time. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, committee wishes to consider Tabled Document 26118(2), Northwest Territories Main Estimates 20172018 with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My question was: Is the intermittent water quality information sufficient to determine whether or not there needs to be any mitigations, and I am talking about mitigations as any development that is on the Talston River, mainly the dam in the spillway, so that's what I'm referring to. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

In my Member's statement I spoke about the federal government putting $50 million aside for remote Indigenous communities to transition off diesel fuel. Has this government had any discussions with the federal government as to that $50 million fund?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chairman, what is intermittent water quality information? I know what the words mean, but what does that actually mean? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Speaker, work is under way to host a charette in Yellowknife in June hosted by Gwich'in Tribal Council with support in the Centre of Indigenous Aboriginal Resources. I’m going to ask the Minister responsible for Climate Change and Energy questions on that. Will the GNWT join those partners to help make the charette happen? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. Could that be made available to committee? Thank you, Mr. Chair.