Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources.

The attached Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, AANDC, map for the Giant Mine Remediation Project shows the location of underground arsenic chambers and project drill holes. The attached GNWT Department of Transportation map, “Proposed Ingraham Trail Realignment,” shows the route of the road realignment.

1. What is the purpose of the realignment and

what issues or concerns is the highway being realigned to address?

2. How was the road alignment route chosen so as

not to interfere with the remediation project and to avoid damage to underlying arsenic storage chambers?

3. Since the underground arsenic chamber labeled

Reach 6 on the AANDC map appears to lie directly under the route of the realigned NWT Highway No. 4, how is the safety of routing the highway over the storage chamber assured?