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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I take the Member's point, and we have heard those concerns stemming out of some of the incidents we had around here, and we are going to go back and work with the departments and improve our communication plan and have a primary contact or a lead contact. So we have heard the concerns, and we are taking steps to address them.
The Inuvialuit Water Board, they are a key partner with responsibilities to uphold our legislation that governs water resources in the ISR. The Government of the Northwest Territories, through ENR, will be seeking input from all water partners including regulatory authorities such as the Inuvialuit Water Board as we advance work to modernize the Waters Act.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the Member is correct, that money is for the environmental sites that are administered by the GNWT, and for the ones that are administered by Canada or that Canada has the responsibility for remediating they will pay for that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I won’t take up too much time here. We’ve heard the concerns of committee and they did mention that they were going to raise these concerns as we go page by page. We’ll look forward to the exchanges we have on each individual page. I will hold my comments until then. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the Member's point is taken. As I said before, we do work with the communities, and then communities and others take responsibility for the fire. If it's threatening their area again, ENR I think has demonstrated in the past that they will step up to the plate when it's needed. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My apologies to the Member, but would he be able to repeat the question?
Yes, I do, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair we can commit to working with the community with the resources that they do have. As Dr. Kelly said, when there is an emerging fire or if there is an emergency situation then ENR would work with them to complete a firebreak, but we will continue to work with the communities.
I think the Member's question may be is: does ENR have the funding to do it, and we don't at this time, to do firebreaks, but we do work with the communities that do have money at their disposal to complete firebreaks? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have a pretty good idea or we do know, but, as I said before, it is a Finance lead and I think it's more appropriate that your questions be directed to Finance. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following three documents entitled "Government of the Northwest Territories Response to Committee Report 418(2): Report on the Review of the 201415 Public Accounts," "FollowUp Letter for Oral Question 50518(2): PeopleSoft Public Service Human Resource Reports," and "FollowUp Letter for Oral Question 60618(2): Status of Transboundary Water Management Agreements." Thank you, Mr. Speaker.