Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. The honourable Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There is a list that exists that has been documented in conjunction with the federal government, the very many sites that there are across the Northwest Territories, which I would be happy to share with the Member. I don’t have it with me here today, but such information is available.

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the offer for the sites. Can the Minister advise the House in terms of the assessments of the sites in terms of the amount of dollars it will require either ourselves or probably mostly the federal government in terms of cleaning up these sites in the Northwest Territories?

Mr. Speaker, I would challenge the Minister in terms of I think it would probably be in the billions in terms of cleaning up the sites in the Northwest Territories, let alone the CANOL Heritage Trail. Just the rough estimate is in the hundreds of millions just to clean up that trail. That is my understanding. I don’t have the final numbers, but I guess I want to ask the Minister in terms of the Sahtu region in terms of the contaminated sites that were left by the federal government. Does the Minister have a more specific assessment of the sites that are in the Sahtu region that were done by the federal government in the early years?

I identified some of those additional sites in my Minister’s statement. There has been work done. The most pressing one, of course, was the community of Tulita and the most outstanding one given the proximity of the community. But, yes, there has been work done on the other sites along the northern transportation route. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Final supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There are various federal government agencies that have some operations around the Sahtu region. I take two issues in terms of the uranium sites along the Bear River, along the Mackenzie River, one Bennett field that had some storage of materials there and also the CANOL Heritage Trail, which has some very significant cleanup work to be done there. In terms of the Minister working with other departments within this government to identify some of the sites in the Sahtu that could be listed as hazardous contaminated sites that need to be cleaned up, would the Minister commit to the House to work with the other departments to look at the sites that need to be cleaned up? Would he provide that to me within a time frame of a month or two?

Dealing with that particular issue across the North as well as in the Sahtu in particular are one of the mandates of Environment and Natural Resources, working with other departments in the government as well as the federal government. I will commit that we will continue to apply ourselves with all diligence and vigilance. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. The honourable Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.