Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, we have had quite significant discussions on both the role of this pipeline office and the choice for location. In terms of role, the office will coordinate our government's activities interdepartmentally for the entire project. There are a number of departments that have been involved to date and will continue to be involved in the planning for this project. RWED is an obvious one, both environmentally and from a business development side. You can imagine Education also has to be very acutely involved with regard to training. MACA is doing some community capacity development work, so they are also involved. What we need is a comprehensive strategy and a comprehensive planning unit and this office will provide us with that support. It will also work on the development of many of the agreements we need in place, the socioeconomic agreement is just one of those. So there are a number of facets to this office, but it will provide a coordinated approach that we've needed for some time and I am now happy to say we will have. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Brendan Bell on Question 257-15(3): Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Office
In the Legislative Assembly on October 19th, 2004. See this statement in context.
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