Glen Abernethy

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I listened with interest to the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation’s opening remarks on the 2011-12 budget, as well as the questions and answers during Committee of the Whole. Housing programs have been a hot topic throughout the life of the 16th Assembly. Significant changes have resulted, including the transfer of responsibility for the public housing from Education, Culture and Employment back to the NWT Housing Corp where they used to be located. This was a positive step, Mr. Speaker.

However, it’s not the only area of concern. Although progress is...

Just in closing, I appreciate all the work that’s been done in this area. This is one area that I think the department could push harder. If you look at our map, if our water is ruined, that affects, out of 33 communities, that immediately affects I think it’s 25 of them, which are on the downriver side of the water coming down that river. So 25, I think. I can recheck but 25 communities will be immediately affected if the quality of the water changes. So this is obviously something that’s important to us in our future, to all the people, and please push. Please push hard on this one. Please...

Mr. Chairman, thank you for that. Once again, I appreciate all the work that you and your department are doing on this, as many are fond to say, water is life. With respect to the monitoring, what are the feds doing and will we have easy and accessible sort of access to the information that is coming out of that? In particular, where is most of the monitoring taking place? Is it immediately downstream of where the oil sands are located? Is it further downstream? Is there any monitoring going on this side of the NWT/Alberta border that will give us some warning about what is on its way just in...

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am not actually 100 percent sure this is the right area, but scanning through, I can’t seem to find the area that might be applicable. Given that this is policy and strategic planning, this I think is the right area.

Early in the life of this Assembly there was talk about a land use framework. I thought or understood that would be coming forward from the Department of ENR for the end of the life of this Assembly, but in looking through this document, I don’t find any reference to it. I am wondering what is the status of that. Is that something that has completely...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Anderson.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Page 5-60, NWT Housing Corporation, information item, infrastructure investment summary.

Going on to page 6-15, Municipal and Community Affairs, information item, directorate, active positions. Agreed?

Moving along to page 6-22. Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, community operations, grants and contributions, contributions, $50,000.