Michael Miltenberger

Mr. Chair, I have with me Mr. Ernie Campbell, deputy minister of Environment and Natural Resources; and Nancy Magrum, director of financial administrative services for shared services between ITI and ENR. Thank you.

Madam Speaker, there is work underway. Recent meetings were just held. The GNWT, in order to assist this program, has to get its thinking clear both on the boundary, which they haven’t finally resolved, as well as the issue of surface and subsurface protection. Other than that, this process I think has moved forward. I understand the meetings were very productive. We intend to get back to the rest of the parties through this process in the near future. Thank you.

This process is supposed to be community driven, which is what we focus and try to maintain as well as trying to find other supporting agencies to assist with that process, but initially there has to be some drive at the community level. Thank you.

We’ve been looking at this and it’s always been my opinion, unsubstantiated by necessarily an expensive study, but that in dealing with e-waste that we would be much better off to work out an arrangement with a large jurisdiction like Alberta, in particular, or in our case Edmonton, where they have the facilities set up and we would make arrangements to process our e-waste through their infrastructure as opposed to us trying to set up a similar kind of service. We’re trying to sort out what’s the best way. I don’t necessarily see it at this point, once again not having seen the final report...

I have to ask the Member for clarification. Is he asking in terms of what’s left of the money or in terms of what type of work we do in relation to the land?

It is in the million dollar-plus range. We’re going to survey the herds. We do some of the work on an ongoing basis and then we do a major amount of work every X number of years, as we’re doing this year, just to bring all that information together and to double check the decisions that we made in terms of, in this case, a lot of the hunting restrictions and herd health. The number is in the million dollar-plus range. I will commit to get the Member the number to the dollar; to the nickel if you’d like. I would be happy to share. I think he already has the notes we have from the 2011-2015...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The first two items are tied to the supps that have come through for firefighting. The biomass one is one of the sunsets resulting out of the lapsed strategic initiatives money that was there previously.

I do, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have with me Mr. Ernie Campbell, deputy minister of Environment and Natural Resources; and Ms. Nancy Magrum, the director of shared services with ENR and ITI, financial services. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to thank the Members, as well, for their input into this motion. In this House as legislators we have a number of tasks before us. We make laws and set up programs and policies, and we administer budgets for the good of all the people. We have to take not only the short view of what’s happening around us but we have to plan, as the Member for Mackenzie Delta said, for the future.

When we started this Assembly we had a plan. We were elected into a reality, a reality where we were coming out of a very significant recession where we spent $1.1 billion in capital...