Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, water is as essential for life as the air that we breathe. Yet as we have come to realize in Walkerton, when it comes to how it is handled and who handles it, it is quite unregulated.
Mr. Speaker, the question I have to the Minister is while we have regulation and standards for child welfare workers...if you want to be a child welfare worker, you have to have a certain amount of training, a certain amount of certification. If you want to drive a truck, you have to pass a test and get certified because there are standards or a lawyer or an SAO.
Yet for those people who provide the critical service of making sure we have good, safe, clean drinking water, we rely entirely on the voluntary Northern Territories Water and Waste Association's voluntary certification program. My question for the Minister of MACA is are there any plans, given the tragedy of Walkerton, for this government to take a look at coming up and working with the Northern Territories Water and Waste Association to come up with a mandatory training package for people working in the communities who handle water and sewer? Thank you.