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Question 1468-19(2): Tailing Ponds Spill
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker, and mahsi to the Minister for that. I'm encouraged by the fact that they will have engagement, which was very lacking at the outset of the tar sands development in the early years, as we would have heard many statements of concern, something similar to the Berger Inquiry. Everybody remembers that one, when the pipeline was going to be coming up and down the Mackenzie Valley and there were a lot of concerns. Nothing was ever, ever heard from the Indigenous peoples. I notice the people from Fort Chipewyan have been voicing their concerns for quite a number of years. There's...

Committee Motion 391-19(2): Committee Report 44-19(2): Special Committee on Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs Final Report: A Northwest Territories Approach to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Negotiating Agr
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Mahsi. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Question 1468-19(2): Tailing Ponds Spill
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker, and mahsi to the Minister. I think he's already answered my second question. I provided all the questions to him ahead of time, so he's just about answered all the questions.

Mr. Speaker, we need certainty and confidence in our partners. Alberta needs to understand how their work in mining and the oil sands impacts our way of life.

Can the Minister apprise as to how we will ensure the future management of discharge regulations can be developed in a meaningful way? In a meaningful way, I mean meeting with all the Indigenous partners in northern Alberta and the Northwest...

Committee Motion 391-19(2): Committee Report 44-19(2): Special Committee on Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs Final Report: A Northwest Territories Approach to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Negotiating Agr
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Mahsi. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Member’s Statement 1471-19(2): Alberta-Northwest Territories Transboundary Water Agreement
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it should be clear that the current bilateral water management agreement with Alberta is not an effective mechanism to protect our waterways. We have heard from the Minister that there have been two separate incidents at this oil sands mine between the 5.3 million litres of industrial waste spillover in February and then a separate incident where oil sands tailings ponds, with contaminants over the regulated guidelines, have seeped into the groundwater and surface water since May 2022. According to the news reports, the premier of Alberta has gone on record to...

Committee Motion 391-19(2): Committee Report 44-19(2): Special Committee on Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs Final Report: A Northwest Territories Approach to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Negotiating Agr
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Mahsi. The motion is in order. To the motion. Mr. O’Reilly.

Committee Motion 390-19(2): Committee Report 44-19(2): Special Committee on Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs Final Report: A Northwest Territories Approach to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Negotiating Agr
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Mahsi. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Committee Motion 389-19(2): Committee Report 44-19(2): Special Committee on Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs Final Report: A Northwest Territories Approach to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Negotiating Agr
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Mahsi. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Committee Motion 393-19(2): Committee Report 44-19(2): Special Committee on Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs Final Report: A Northwest Territories Approach to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Negotiating Agr
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

The motion is in order and nondebatable. All those in favour? The motion is carried.

Carried

I will now rise and report progress. Mahsi

Committee Motion 388-19(2): Committee Report 44-19(2): Special Committee on Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs Final Report: A Northwest Territories Approach to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Negotiating Agr
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Mahsi. The motion is in order. To the motion.