We will get that information for the Member today. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The honourable Member for Weledeh, Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have folks monitoring the work of the Assembly, the questions being asked, and yes, we will follow up forthwith on this urgent issue. Thank you.

This government shares responsibility for the health and safety precautions for air quality monitoring for the deconstruction project. Air sampling stations are located in town at Sir John Franklin, Niven Lake and on Latham and they will be monitored, but it’s been pointed out that fence line monitoring would be much more effective for providing an early warning system and a better indicator of site conditions and management responses. So rather than waiting to say, hey, containment have arrived, yikes, will the Minister commit to have ENR meet with AANDC project partners to amend the plan for sample collection to include air sampling stations at the fence line between the roaster complex and town, and continue sampling 24 hours a day, not just during operations, with no shutdown during winter hiatus and active operations and that the results be made publicly available on the Internet? Mahsi.

We have an air quality program coordinator that is involved in this whole project. So I will be talking to the deputy. We will be looking at the concerns the Member has raised and the suggestion he’s made about the different location and we’ll give it its due and full consideration, recognizing the urgency of the concern. Thank you.

I will look forward to what the Minister concludes on that one.

On the issue of emergency response, the worst situation would likely be a fire during the deconstruction, which would cause immediate downwind threats to human health. AANDC says there’s an emergency plan in place and warnings would be issued, but even if I heard a siren, I wouldn’t know what to do. Go inside? Listen to the

radio? This information should be easy to communicate through ads and flyers delivered to homes.

Will the Minister again commit to contacting his partners and urging them to advertise and distribute detailed information on how residents will be informed in case of an emergency and what they should do in the event of a toxic cloud moving towards town or some other such event? Mahsi.

As with the other concerns that have been raised, I will be reviewing the concerns with the deputy and the officials involved in monitoring this project and involved to ensure that the safety considerations are addressed. We will go over the concerns raised by the Member, and if it requires getting in touch with our partners and revising whatever communication and emergency response plan is there, then yes, we will take the necessary steps should they be required.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Final, short, short supplementary.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, thanks to the Minister. I look forward to that information. Thanks for those amendments.

There are also concerns with the dust management plan for deconstruction sets action levels for toxic dust conditions so high that site activities will not trigger any management response whatsoever.

Will the Minister commit to provide information to this House on how action levels for dust conditions were set and an explanation of why those action levels prompting dust control are set so high?

Yes.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. The time for oral questions has expired, but I will allow Mr. Hawkins to get his questions in today.

I look forward to all four questions today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will try to make them very short with maybe a quick explanation and some quick bullets after that. While travelling into the Deh Cho, I’ve heard Aboriginal people say they’d like set aside lands protected and trespassing raised as an issue. Recently I was in the Sahtu and Aboriginal people told me there that they want trespass protection on their lands. I’ve been in Yellowknife and other areas, and whether it’s private business or even public lands, trespassing has turned out to be an issue. My Member’s statement said enough. I’ll just ask the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs what is he prepared to do regarding trespass legislation that can help people all around the North to deal with this type of problem.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. The Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is an issue across the Northwest Territories. I agree with the Member; there are other mechanisms in place to deal with this particular issue. I take the Member’s point, though, on the need for trespass legislation. I have reviewed trespassing legislation across the country and in many of the other jurisdictions it is administered by the Department of Justice. Seeing that, I’ve had a discussion with our Justice Minister and he has committed to me that he will have his department have a look at the opportunity of trespass legislation, or we’d have to weigh that, again, against all our other priorities as far as legislation goes.

Is that a commitment to investigate this problem about seeing what’s possible, working with his partners at the Department of Justice?

The commitment was to look at it and see if there was anything we can do.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Item 9, written questions. Item 10, returns to written questions. Item 11, replies to opening address. Item 12, petitions. Item 13, reports of committees on the review of bills. Item 14, tabling of documents. Mr. Miltenberger.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document, entitled Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2013-2014.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following document, entitled “Results Report 2012-2013, 20/20: A Brilliant North, NWT Public Service Strategic Plan.”

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following three documents, entitled “Agricultural Products Marketing Council, 2012/2013 Annual Report;” “NWT Tourism 2013-2014 Marketing Plan;” and “What We Heard and Recommendations: Report of the NWT Economic Opportunities Strategy Advisory Panel.” Thank you, Mr. Speaker.