Meetings are all great and well, but at the end of the day we can meet until we’re blue in the face. My issue is: what is this government going to do in the meantime?
This pit has been accessed going back to the mid-’80s. It's part of the Gwich'in Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement. It was part of an overlap agreement between the Gwich'in and the Inuvialuit. It's identified in those land claim documents as a gravel source. Yet I see nothing in regard to why this government is not recognizing this as a gravel source like any other gravel source in the Northwest Territories.
This government has been spending money on access to the gravel source for years, yet we hear, Let’s have another meeting. I'd like to ask the Minister: exactly when will we see the dollars that are going to be needed to put this road into this gravel source?