Thank you. My final question to the Minister. The Minister of MACA, myself, along with the leadership of Colville Lake have met recently and the issue was their newly installed water treatment plant. There have been problems with the installation and the piping had broken. We had a good meeting, it’s just that when we have companies coming into our small communities, there’s no type of guarantees. We try to say that this is the problem now, we have broken pipes that we can’t use the water treatment facility. It actually fills up, and some other issues there.
So I guess my question is twofold. One is how are we keeping track of people or companies putting in these facilities in our small northern communities? The issue we had with the Minister of MACA is that the companies did not take the advice of the traditional knowledge of the people saying that this is not the place to, however, because of the engineering degrees or whatever professions they study under said no, we know what we’re doing, it
invalidated the traditional knowledge of the people in that area.
It’s no blame here. Just we need to know that if the government is going to work on the Traditional Knowledge Policy and it goes throughout the government, we need to know that contractors and …(inaudible)…that this is a policy that we like to follow and have some discussions with the people in that area. They may be right but they may be wrong and that’s something that we need to honour. As I said, we had a good discussion with the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs.
My second question was: What type of work do we do to allow outside contractors to spend some quality time with the people in that area to say this is what we’re going to do when we come in the following months to put up a water treatment plant, sewer plant, whatever, under the auspices of Public Works and Services. I do want to say that I appreciate the Minister coming into the Sahtu region. It was a good visit. He did good up there. Those are my questions.