Thank you, Madam Chair. For further detail and very specific to what the Member is asking, with your permission, I'll ask the deputy minister to provide that information. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Kelly
Thank you, Madam Chair. I can speak specifically to the barging. Many of our communities in the Northwest Territories have stockpiles of hazardous waste. We have partnered with Infrastructure to ship out, using the barges, hazardous waste stockpiles from communities. We could definitely look into the trucking aspect more, but we've been focusing on the hazardous waste and the barges to date. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. How has ENR leveraged the on-the-ground expertise of different private businesses in order to help solve some of the landfill challenges in some of our remote communities? Thank you.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you, Madam Chair. For that detail, I'll ask my deputy minister to provide that information. Thank you.
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Thank you, Madam Chair. I believe some of that work still needs to be done. What we have are some advisory committees that involve communities, as well as another advisory committee that involves businesses, and others that are interested in waste reduction, and the solid waste aspect of it, we're working towards under the implementation of that waste resource management strategy that I discussed earlier. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I guess more of a comment. There are definitely businesses within the North that want to be able to share knowledge and expertise with communities and see the value of making sure that we're all as green as we possibly can be, and so there are people out there who would really like to be able to participate in stuff like this. My last question is in regard to banning single-use plastics and how the federal government has a goal of attaining that by 2021. I'm wondering where we are as a government to be able to achieve that alongside the federal government. Thank you.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you, Madam Chair. From January 15, 2010, to March 31, 2019, nearly 57 million single-use bags, retail bags, have been kept from the NWT landfill, representing about a 72-percent reduction, and we are actually working with, and I apologize, I don't know exactly what the department is, or the committee is, but we're working with the federal government on this. Oh, sorry, the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, sorry. We're working with them presently. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you, Madam Chair. We've seen some local retailers stop using plastic bags on their own accord and have just gone to reusing cardboard boxes or just insisting that the only option for people is to bring their own bag. In terms of the single-use plastic bags, is that something that our government would like to jump on sooner rather than later, and work with retailers to end that practice? Thank you.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you, Madam Chair. For that type of detail, I'll ask the deputy minister to provide information on what we are doing. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Kelly
Thank you, Madam Chair. As the Minister mentioned, we are currently working with our provincial and federal partners through the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment on a single-use plastics roadmap, as part of a commitment under the Canada-wide Strategy on Zero Plastic Waste. Our intention is to do some amendments to the Waste Reduction and Recovery Act and also look at streams, and which streams are most available to us for waste reduction, in collaboration with some of those committees that I mentioned earlier. The work is ongoing. At this particular moment in time, we would need to do some amendments to the act to be able to enable that. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd just like to commend the department on all the work they've done on that waste management strategy. There is a lot of good work in there. One of the issues raised in there is that a lot of our waste management facilities have a water licence but are not in compliance with it, so my question is: do we know how many of them are not in compliance, and is there some sort of timeline to get them in compliance with their water licences?
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you, Madam Chair. We'll have to get back to the Member with that information. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, I trust that the department understands the importance of that. You know, there is lots of work to do on waste management. I wanted to kind of pick up where the Member for Frame Lake left off. Presently, securities are set by or housed within ENR, Lands, and then there's a bit over in OROGO. I guess my question is: is there a reason that ENR and land securities are in separate departments? I recognize there is different legislation and those departments have responsibility for it, but is there any benefit to having them under different Ministers? Well, the same Minister, but different departments, in this case.