Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are addressed to the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources. I’d like to ask the Minister some questions around a mine that
straddles the Yukon/NWT border owned by Northern American Tungsten, and that’s the Cantung Mine. It’s reported that the Cantung Mine is going to be closing next month, at the end of October, and there is going to be a loss of jobs, certainly, when the mine closes.
There’s going to be a loss of resource
revenues to us, and particularly my concern is that there’s going to be a cost to the government environmentally.
My first question to the Minister is: It is my understanding that the Cantung Mine is now a responsibi
lity of the NWT, whereas it’s been federal
jurisdiction up until devolution. So, I’d like to ask the Minister if that’s correct.
Who has responsibility for the Cantung Mine? Did it come over to us as a responsibility to the NWT in devolution? Thank you.