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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the Minister for his comments. Just following up on Mr. Ramsay’s comments, please get the bridge built on time and within budget. That would be fantastic.
There are some other things that I think are quite positive in here. I’m happy to see progress on the Mackenzie Valley Highway in any capacity. I think that’s great news. Moving forward, obviously, it would be great if as much as possible we can involve Northerners in any construction and planning that takes place. I know that there are different groups from different communities that are very eager...
Mr. Chairman, clearly there is a significant number of challenges in that area. I am intrigued. You talked about basically hundreds of places they are doing assessments of the water. It is difficult to pull them together. Is that actually part of the fed’s plan, is to pull together the data from all of those different individuals or groups or organizations or companies, pulling together the data? Are they only going to be compiling the data they collect themselves? The reason I ask is, if they are not, why would we wait for somebody else to compile it? Is there not an opportunity for us, if...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This has already been summed up earlier today about the NWT Water Stewardship Strategy. I think the department has a lot done, a really fantastic job, and so far a lot of really good work. I have attended some presentations on it. I am quite happy with what I have seen so far in the department moving forward, but I am concerned about the water flowing into the Northwest Territories.
I recently have read a report by an independent scientist who studied the Slave River downriver from the oil sands project. It pretty much indicated that there were significant amounts of...
Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. And that’s the University of Saskatchewan, I believe, in Saskatoon. Next, I have on my list Ms. Bisaro.
Mr. Chairman, I will make sure I ask the Executive then.
Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Minister Miltenberger.
Page 6-9, Municipal and Community Affairs, department summary, information item, revenue summary. Mr. Krutko.
Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Aumond.
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Aumond.
Thank you, Ms. Gareau. Page 6-40, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, regional operations, grants and contributions, community government grants and contributions, grants, $51.902 million.