Norman Yakeleya

Mr. Speaker, I want to ask the Minister, given that we know for a fact that in the 1970s there was the first acid fracking in Cameron Hills, and today we are starting to realize that we want to continue doing more research around this horizontal fracking, has his department seen any type of shift in the land or in the area where fracking has taken place where there were downhole injections in the past in the areas that I’ve listed here? Thank you.

From our experience from the oil and gas development, and specifically I now want to focus in on the Sahtu region, has the Minister, through his department, done an assessment on the economic benefits around the oil and gas activity that happened in the last five years?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I want to talk about the potential of the resource development we have in the Northwest Territories. We have seen it in the Sahtu region. Like any new technology, there’s always risk. We deal with that every day, from the time that Henry Ford came out with the Model T car to the vehicles we deal with today. There’s always potential risk with the technology that’s coming out.

Do we have the tools to manage these risks? I believe so. Again, like the vehicles, we have the tools to manage those risks. There are risks going to be involved.

We also need more research over...

Mr. Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories work more actively and closely with the Information and Privacy Commissioner on the implementation on the Health Information Act. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I too want to lend my support to our committee chair, Mr. Nadli, for the guidance and working with the Members here to have this bill before us. I also congratulate Mr. Miltenberger and his team for bringing this forward and having the flexibility and the foresight to see to this day here that the bill could come forward. It required some of the NEBS membership, also, and the hard work they’ve done with putting together with our Nunavut counterparts.

Also, more important were the hearings that we had here in Yellowknife that brought out some of these issues that make it...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Dolynny.

In market housing, a landlord who wishes to end a tenancy must generally obtain the agreement of the tenant. This means the tenant has security-of-tenure. However, since 2010, a new provision in the act allows a public housing landlord to end a fixed-term tenancy by giving 30 days’ notice, with a reason for termination. This provision contrasts with the security-of-tenure enjoyed by market housing tenants.

The committee noted that the matter of differential treatment for subsidized housing received considerable attention prior to the 2010...

Hydraulic fracking in the Sahtu and in the North here has been highly controversial. The issue of the hydraulic fracking, I want to ask the Minister, in his experience and in his term as the Minister, are there safe regulations right now, today, over the years that we have looked at this new technology in the Sahtu in the Northwest Territories that says, yes, it can be done, we can manage it, we can deal with the risks? Are we dealing with the facts rather than the fears?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just have some general questions for the Minister on the petroleum products division and the energy conservation department here. I want to ask the Minister, in the government’s dealings, where are we receiving our fuel products from? Which country, which area, and how much are we receiving?

Has the department initiated some policies or regulations to protect our…(inaudible)…from any type of abuse or any type of stealing of our designs or our beadwork?

A bundle of money, Mr. Chair. Okay, I’ll leave that and I’ll figure that out.