Thank you. Maybe I’ll ask the Minister of ITI for that community assessment report. I know MACA has it. I wish I would have kept a copy of it. Anyway, that was the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline. So maybe ITI will have it. I’ll ask the Minister. At another time I’ll ask him for a copy.
So that’s okay. I will work with the Minister, I’ll work with his team on the impacts. I know they’re feeling it now. Again, I was at the Sahtu Dene Council meeting yesterday and the four chiefs were talking about these impacts, and I sat there all day. One of the things that we talked about, and it was because of the four chiefs being there and them having my ear, is them talking about the infrastructure, the water treatment plants, the sewer plants. These are the assets owned by our government and they’re pretty expensive to operate. They’re pretty complex, pretty technical and they were looking for support where the government could work with our communities to look at how best to serve the community. So I appreciate the flexibility your staff has, Minister, and acknowledging the hardship we had in regard to Colville Lake, for example. We don’t need to bring that up, but you guys are working on it in Tulita and Deline and Fort Good Hope.
So I think we need to continue with the infrastructure. The amount of money that the community has, the amount of needs that they have on the roads, dumps, water treatment plants, sewer, other things, we don’t meet all our priorities. So I want to ask the Minister in regard to that, because some of our water treatment plants are pretty complex, they’re pretty expensive, we need to ensure that our communities have enough and sufficient money to operate them. That’s what I wanted to remind the Minister, that if you have a $10 treatment plant, we need to make sure that there’s $10 worth of operating funding, not 10 cents. So that’s something we want to work closely with.
Again, I appreciate the staff working hard with our communities in Colville, Good Hope, Deline, Norman Wells and Tulita on this key, essential infrastructure for our people. Mahsi.