Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to talk this afternoon too, about cleaning up our act. It is not quite as noble as my colleagues here, but the problem that I am looking at is one that has been around for a long time. That is the legacy that is left over after 60 years of gold mining here in the Yellowknife area. That is the ongoing saga of trying to seek some kind of approval to
the processes by which the Con and the Giant mines are going to be cleaned up.
Mr. Speaker, my other colleagues have spoken of this issue many times in this Assembly and in the past one. We continue to see a process whereby the Miramar Con Mine is undergoing a cleanup operation, but one which has received, unfortunately, far too little public exposure and opportunity for public input.
On the Giant Mine property, Mr. Speaker, at least on the surface cleanup, we are caught in what I understand is a very difficult jurisdictional argument between our government and the federal government over who has responsibility and liability for the surface cleanup of this very large and really unfortunate situation. So, Mr. Speaker, I am going to draw attention to that again. We really, in this day and age, should not be ignoring this or leaving it on the back burner. It is probably tempting in an economy where there is so much other resource development going on, that we cannot lose sight of the fact that we have a responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the environment to do the right thing and clean up the mistakes of yesterday. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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