Thank you. We will, as we’ve done our own work in this, and being supportive of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process, we’re going to be working with them to see how we can pool this together and come out with some process, documentation that we can, whether to showcase, put on display, have a historical record of it. We will work with them to see how we can pool that together. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Final, short supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Grollier Hall Residential School, Stringer Hall, opened in 1959. Grollier Hall closed in 1996; Stringer Hall in 1970. The community of Inuvik was part of our family. I wanted to ask the Premier what will he do to help the thousands of students -- there are 2,500 students that attended Grollier, and a number of students in the Sahtu and other outlying communities -- get to Inuvik. I know there’s a limited

number. How can we help also with the students, the community of Inuvik, to do this healing? How can the Premier help fund the students to get there?

Thank you. We know that the groups have been working in the North with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and have been looking to get additional support for some of the travel costs. Right now we’re limited to what we can do in in-kind support or with volunteers, with office space, with residential occupancy areas of trying to make some of our facilities open to them. So that’s the extent of what we’ve been focusing on doing.

We don’t have a budget line right now for travel, for example, and we know that a number of groups have been working with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to see if they can expand their program. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. The honourable Member for Tu Nedhe, Mr. Beaulieu.

Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Today I have questions for the Minister of Environment on Pine Point and the clean-up of that site. I’d like to ask the Minister who is responsible for the clean-up of Pine Point Mines. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. The honourable Minister responsible for Environment and Natural Resources, Mr. Miltenberger.

The federal government, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. Pine Point is clearly within the Northwest Territories. I’d like to know why that is the case. Why is the federal government responsible for cleaning up Pine Point?

Thank you. Because at this point they are the landlords, it’s Crown land. Should the day come with devolution, that site and its remediation would be dealt with through the devolution process, but at this point they are the landowner and responsible. Thank you.

Thank you. My understanding from the people in Fort Resolution is that the reason that Pine Point is not cleaned up is because Cominco continues to hold a lease in Pine Point. However, that mine has been shut down for 25 years. It only ran for 25 years. So my question is: what role does the territorial government have? The territorial government must have some role, regardless of devolution. Thank you.

Thank you. We played a major role as a government back when the town was in existence. As they dismantled the town

and shut down the mine site and people were relocated or left, we played a role in that capacity. The actual clean-up of the site, with the huge pits and the tailings ponds and all the other attendant problems were the responsibility of the federal government. We had a role where we made sure and encouraged them to complete it and conclude it. I flew over there a few years ago and it is still a very visible work in progress, with the pits wide open and work still being done in the tailings ponds. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Your final supplementary, Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Pine Point used to be, at one time, a great trapping area for many trappers of Fort Resolution. The site has to be remediated. It’s been left, like I said, 25 years. I want to know if this government can do anything now with the discussions on devolution. Can this government do anything at all to clean Pine Point up? Thank you.

Thank you. In the agreement-in-principle for devolution there’s a specific clause in part of the agreement that deals with the whole area of contaminated sites, ones that are currently in existence, ones that may come into existence. There’s been significant work on inventory. There’s hundreds and hundreds of contaminated sites that have to be cleaned up. Many, or most, are on Crown land, some on territorial land, which we are responsible for. Pine Point is on that list, and once again, it’s a list that far exceeds the resources available to remediate all of the sites. So it will be on the list to be dealt with, hopefully, and identified through this process. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. The honourable Member for Frame Lake, Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to address my questions to the Minister of MACA today, but in his absence I will address them to the Premier. I spoke in my statement about the NWT SPCA and the fact that this government really doesn’t put any priority on veterinary services and programs for our communities. The NWT SPCA is a possible organization which can be the conveyance to provide some of those services for our communities. So I’d like to ask the Premier what opportunities exist within our government for the NWT SPCA to access funds to help them build and operate an NWT animal shelter. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. The honourable Premier, Mr. Roland.

I don’t have any of that information available to me at this point, so I’ll have to take the question as notice.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Item 9, written questions. The honourable Member for Sahtu, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation.

1. Please provide a schedule showing how often

the Housing Corporation conducts assessments on its public housing units to check for mould and other potential health hazards.

2. Please provide a copy of a policy and detailed

action plan of how the Housing Corporation will deal with mould and similar health hazards in public housing units.

Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources.

1. Please provide a list of water quality monitoring

program activities planned for the Mackenzie River in the 2011-2012 fiscal year.

2. Please provide a copy of a detailed action plan

for monitoring stations along the Slave and Mackenzie rivers.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. The honourable Member for Kam Lake, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to return to item 8, oral questions.

---Unanimous consent granted