Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have a responsibility of the government to negotiate with the communities and to facilitate with the communities community empowerment. One of those issues that has to be addressed through community empowerment is when we turn buildings over, and when we turn buildings over we have to make sure, the same as we made sure from the federal government when buildings were turned over to this government from the federal government. We made sure as part of those negotiations, for example, in health centres and renewable resource bases, things of that nature, we made sure that we had protection to protect this government from any environmental cleanup that happened in the past so that we would not take on a liability of an environmental nature.

For example, if a fuel tank was there, it would cost a lot of money to take that fuel tank out of the ground, take all that dirt out of the ground and dispose of it and put a new one back in. So we had to make sure as a territorial government that we protected our interest and in no way are we going to go into a community and set a community up for failure. So we will make sure that by facilitating, not negotiating, by facilitating with the communities, talking, having an open degree of discussion with them on environmental issues, because there are environmental issues. For example, even uranium coming out of Great Bear Lake, many, many years ago. There is environmental contaminated soils on the shores of Great Slave Lake and that land possibly belongs to the Government of the Northwest Territories. So prior to turning it over, we would have to make sure ...

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