Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just have one question here and it has to do with the work that is being done to investigate whether or not communities can, or will be able to, assess a hotel levy. I’m asking particularly for the municipality of Yellowknife. I know there was some work being done. It’s been a very long time that this work was being done. Can I get an update on where things are at? Thank you.

Thank you. Deputy Minister Williams.

Thanks to the DM for that. I appreciate that it’s on the list, but it’s been on the list for about three years now. Is this something that’s going to get solved one way or the other before the end of the 17th Assembly? Thank you.

Thanks to the DM. I guess just in terms of the philosophy, I’m having great difficulty understanding if this is something that can be applied by each individual community, should they want to do it, why does the disagreement of a hotel operator in a community outside of Yellowknife, impact on the possibility of Yellowknife applying that levy? Thank you.

Thank you, deputy minister. Next I have on my list Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. ENR has got some monitoring equipment, I believe, in Fort Smith and on the Mackenzie River. As far as the drinking water quality, the community operators take the samples and then they, in turn, provide those samples to Health and Social Services and they do the analysis.

As far as the website goes, we recognize there are some improvements that need to be made to the website, so we have a project team that has been put together to complete the work on the drinking water website. We are expecting a launch date of the new, updated site of June 2014. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

We heard – and I had to go check my notes – this drinking water website or an updated version of the website probably almost two years ago, almost when I first started as a Member. I’m still very concerned.

This is the only website that the public has in order to validate, reassure them in a transparent manner if the testing is being done. So what are those barriers that we can’t update this website with the community drinking water teams that are allegedly doing this testing? Thank you.

The information, I think, is contained within the MACA website. Again, as I said before, we recognize that we need to improve it, so this site is going to be specifically for the drinking water. We have a project team that’s put together. The launch date is June of 2014. So right now you’d have to navigate through the MACA website, but we’re trying to make it more user-friendly. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Maybe I will rephrase my questions. We do have a drinking water website that MACA administers. The website has a water quality database broken up by community. It is broken by bacteriological testing as well as chemical testing. Yet, when you drill down to each community, in some communities there hasn’t been a test for sometimes up to a year or 12 months ago or six months ago. If you have one testing, you may have only the one chemical testing, but no bacteriological testing. In some cases, you have bacteriological testing and no chemical testing.

So, what are the barriers for putting that information on this particular website today? I’m not sure if we need a working group to do that. It’s about data entering. Are the tests there? Have the tests been done? What have the barriers been in putting them into this “only” public website available to residents of the Northwest Territories? Thank you.

We were anticipating that we were going to launch the new website, but the Member is correct; there is a website there and it has a database. So there actually is no barrier other than entering the information.

I can commit to the Member that we’ll go back and ensure that our website is updated and kept updated even though we are anticipating the launch of the new system in June. Thank you.

I appreciate the Minister’s commitment. The Minister is aware that I’ve been very vocal on water. We’ve got some great

stewardship; we’ve got some great water management strategies. I know the Minister of ENR is well known for the ethics we’re bringing to the Water Strategy and I support all those initiatives. I just want to make sure we’ve got something that the public has access to and it’s updated regularly. I think that’s my goal.

I will leave this with my last question. The GNWT report on drinking water, the last one tabled, according to this website and according to Hansard, is 2011. We have not seen a 2012 report nor have we seen a 2013 report. When can the public and Members here anticipate seeing both water drinking reports tabled in the next little bit? Thank you.

Our plan is to table them during the May/June session.

I appreciate it. I am looking forward to seeing those documents. No further questions. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Next on the list is Ms. Bisaro.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I just have one question and I forgot to ask it earlier and realized it belongs on this page. It has to do with legislation or a legislative agenda as well.

Members have been asking since the 16th when or

if MACA will take action on Access to Information and Protection of Privacy legislation for municipalities. The last I understood there was some work that was going on. I believe there was some consultation with communities. Can I get an update on where that is at as well? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Director Schauerte.

Thank you, Director Schauerte. Ms. Bisaro.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Thanks to Mr. Schauerte for that. I’m very glad that this is finally maybe coming to some kind of fruition. It’s an issue that the Information and Privacy Commissioner has raised for, I think, at least eight years. So it’s about time that the government actually took some action. So, no more questions. Thanks, Mr. Chair.