With that, I would like to thank the Minister and witnesses. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses out.

What is the wish of the committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. At this time I would like to ask the standing committee that reviewed the bill in they have any comments. Mr. Tom Beaulieu, chair of Social Programs. Mr Beaulieu.

To the bill as a whole as amended.

Okay, with that, we’ll take a short break.

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Question is being called.

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Thank you, I call Committee of the Whole to order. In Committee of the Whole we have before us: Tabled Document 4-16(5), Tabled Document 30-16(5), Tabled Document 38-16(5), Bill 5, Committee Report 1-16(5) and Committee Report 2-16(5). What is the wish of committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Clause 3. Mr. Bromley.

Mr. Speaker, one of the reasons I also raise this issue is because the residents of the communities are concerned that a lot of material is leaving the pit with no monitoring and also a lot of these are government contracts. Again, there has to be a better job of monitoring this site and, more importantly, the possibility of having some gates or something in place. I know that the government doesn’t like that, but I think we have to do something to protect the remaining gravel resources that are there. So I’d like to ask the Minister, in light of the pit management plan which identifies...

General comments. Detail? Does committee agree that we will go clause by clause of the bill?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are to the Minister responsible for Transportation in regard to the Frog Creek pit. As we all know, it is a pit that has given the government free access for a number of years under the land claim agreement. Its term is almost up in a number of years. I’d like to ask the Minister, is this government budgeting money to do the reclamation of the pit? Since the Government of the Northwest Territories was the sole user and as part of the agreement that gave the government free access, it also included that they also had to do the reclamation of...