Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it's great to hear that the community of Wekweeti has been looked after in the capital plans and that a portion of the dump will be moved and is still in the work plan.

Gameti, yes, it's true, the SAO recently resigned, but I must remind the Minister that a new SAO has been hired and I would like to get a commitment from the Minister that the department can go into the community and analyze the situation. Mr. Speaker, finding suitable equipment in the community has always been a problem. I am glad the Minister of MACA is identifying the problem, but that's another story.

Mr. Speaker, when can the Minister come out to the community and talk with the Tlicho leadership about the specific dump relocation? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We can have our staff visit the community and carry on this discussion. I believe there's been an ongoing discussion on these projects. So I think that it wouldn't take a lot of effort. If there is a new SAO in Gameti, then we'll carry on their discussions there. There has been requests for the community to take over full project authority on this project. That's something we want to discuss further. As for myself personally going into the community, I believe I made that commitment already to go into some of the Tlicho communities with the Member. Of course, as the Minister of MACA, the first places I visit usually is the sewer lagoon and the waste site facilities. So we will certainly commit to doing that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Yes, the Minister will be coming to our region and we'll be dealing with that particular issue. Mr. Speaker, the next issue I'd like to address is the community of Behchoko. The Minister highlighted that his department is working with the Behchoko community government. Mr. Speaker, I'm just wondering if the Minister can outline how far they are with the planning process, because they've identified two locations. I'm just wondering where they're at with the planning process. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Mr. McLeod.

Mr. Speaker, we've been working at the waste site facility with the community of Behchoko for I think over a year now. We've carried it over from last year and we've identified several sites over this past year and the community has come forward with a recommendation for a site also and we've done some analysis on these sites. We will continue to have those discussions and then as soon as we can narrow it down to a site that everybody agrees with, we'll start doing the actual design and planning around that and move forward with the project. But that's been a problem up to now, is to identify a site that everybody is satisfied with. We had some sites identified that's along the highway and of course that causes problems as it is visible from Highway No. 3 and that's not acceptable. So we'll have to sit down and have further discussion. My staff will do that and hopefully we'll have a site location firmed up fairly quick and we can move forward with doing the actual project. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Final, short supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. My final question to the Minister will be upon completion of the planning process and analyzing the relocation of the dump with the community of Gameti and Behchoko, could the Minister highlight if the capital plans can be part of the business plan this fall? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The solid waste sites that we are discussing here today are already in the capital plan. They have already been approved and the budgets are already allocated for these three communities. So they're already in the capital plan. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Oral questions. The honourable Member from Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Mr. Speaker, after we leave this House today I would like to get somebody to go back and do a word check and see how many times we heard the words "under review" during the last eight days, because it was quite significant.

But, Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Health and Social Services, the Minister responsible for perpetual planning. That's his own phrase that I've stolen from him there. Mr. Speaker, the emergency response services in our communities, I raised this last time in the House, I asked for a measly $10,000 to give to our local

emergency response volunteer group in Hay River so that they could come up with a proposal for what they need so that they could engage the support of industry, and the government, and the municipality and different departments, and this request was denied and yet we have hundreds of thousands of dollars to study other things. Apparently a comprehensive report has come out. I believe the Minister has briefed the mayor of Hay River on this particular subject, but I still don't know exactly what the Minister is going to do to address these issues about emergency response volunteers. I don't know what he's going to do about liability. I don't know what he's going to do about compensation. These are all outstanding questions and I'd like some answers from the Minister today before we leave for the summer. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. The honourable Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we've committed to come back to this House in the fall with a plan that's going to lay out how we want to rationalize, as a government, this particular service and coordinate the efforts across the departments that are impacted; as well, be able to work with the communities on the best way to move forward both with the emergency response, the ambulance service, as well as the medical transport fees. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, a very comprehensive and thick report on this subject has already come out. Why is it going to take to the fall for this government to respond? Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Miltenberger.

Mr. Speaker, we have to sort out a number of fairly complex issues, service provision, there's a whole host of different models of what's already in existence in the North and across different communities. There's liability issues, there's legislative issues that have to be addressed and there's no one clear model to do this. So those are the type of issues we're trying to come to grips with here in the next few months as we finalize that work. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the meantime, there are people who are resigning from positions. There's not a lot of clarity around liability, there's been lawsuits that have been filed by the Workers' Compensation Board. There's just a lot of outstanding questions and I think the time is of the essence. What is the Minister going to have in hand by the fall that is going to actually not just see more review and more study, but something tangible in the hands of these folks who are offering these volunteer, but very, very important services to our communities? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We intend to be able to come forward with some clear options of a layout and answer some of the questions as we see them as a government in terms of the liability, the role of Health and Social Services, which is the ultimate end user, what role MACA plays if any, the type of legislation we're going to need, how do we address the liability issues. As we, for the first time, will be formally acknowledging that this is a service that we have a vested interest in, we have to be able to speak to the resource requirements, how do we support communities that are doing this through their town councils and community councils. We have some that are done on contract. So there's a number of complex issues to sort out. We have to, as a government, have those answers or some options to those answers by the fall. Thank you.