Thank you, Mr. Chair. My question to the Minister is in the area of a study that was done a number of years ago by the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs with regard to dust control alternatives. A cost-benefit analysis was done in 2005 by the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. Back then, during the 14th Assembly, one of the big issues for the small communities was dealing with the area of dust control. Today we still have that same problem in our communities, especially when we talk about the health of our communities and the well-being of people in those communities.

I know the department has requested that the Department of Transportation, working along with the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, reinstates such a program or initiative. So I would just like to ask the Minister or the deputy where we are when we find ways to deal with the dust problems we are having in our communities, especially the health of our communities and the problems they are seeing with dust. There have been studies done in Europe and other countries that definitely show a direct correlation between ailments like lung disease and dust in those particular communities. I think that’s something we

have to be aware of in the Northwest Territories. So I’d like to ask the Minister if his department has talked with the Department of Transportation or is working with the Department of Transportation and the local municipal authorities to deal with dust control.

Maybe just wrapping up, this program that went into place during the 14th Assembly, there were nine

communities identified. A majority of those communities have had some means of chipseal or were using different dust suppressants in the communities. But the communities that were chipsealed back then, most of them are at the sixth or seventh year of those streets being chipsealed. It has served its life. Now basically they have to either redo the streets or replace the chipseal with something else. So I would like to ask the Minister if the department has looked at coming up with a solution to this problem by working with the communities to deal with it.