Thank you, Madam Chair. I agree with my colleague from Yellowknife North. I, again, in my former life prior to being an MLA, spent a lot of time in the territories' landfills. I was very lucky to be some of those people categorizing waste or working with land farms.
I do want to caution, though, that one thing that -- and sort of touched upon by my colleague, that the capacity of communities is often overtaxed. And this is an area where I think that is very much the case. And as well too that it doesn't always make sense necessarily for each community itself to be having maybe their own landfill strategy in the sense that some of these issues could be done in a regional sense I think as well. And I think that needs to be explored. We don't necessarily want to say let's build this in every community like a land farm, which is a soil remediation farm, which I thought would be a great idea until I started to speak to somebody about the logistics of doing that. So I've watched the GNWT come in and have to do assessments of the landfills for things like storage tanks, for asbestos-containing materials, for lead paint. I've had GNWT clients tell me don't worry about that being disposed of properly, just throw it in the landfill after doing sampling where we wouldn't have necessarily known yet whether or not the materials contained anything hazardous. I've watched wildlife entering all the landfills as well which, while beautiful, is pretty disturbing to see a bunch of these majestic cranes all over the community garbage. So I can't, again, recommend this enough. I think we've given the municipal infrastructure gap that has not really been dealt with despite the $5 million we tried to throw at it. I think that the GNWT has a responsibility here to take this on and take this out of the hands of and responsibility only of the municipalities. Thank you.