This is page numbers 5353 - 5396 of the Hansard for the 19th Assembly, 2nd Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was know.

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The Chair

The Chair Ronald Bonnetrouge

Mahsi. Ms. Nokleby.

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Katrina Nokleby

Katrina Nokleby Great Slave

Thank you. And yeah, I also cannot say enough good things about the Mine Training Society, particularly in how a lot of their course work or options or training is free. They do a lot of training around community members and repurposing or re -- I don't know what the word is -- reorienting people in their professional path that have come out of other areas that are maybe not so prosperous at the moment.

Can the Minister or the deputy minister or Ms. Salvador speak about where the money for the Mine Training Society would fall in these contributions and do we actually, in fact, other than on a project basis, do we provide any funding to the Mine Training Society? Thank you.

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The Chair

The Chair Ronald Bonnetrouge

Mahsi. Minister.

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Caroline Wawzonek

Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me direct that to the deputy, please.

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The Chair

The Chair Ronald Bonnetrouge

Deputy minister.

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Strand

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. So the Mine Training Society, we don't provide funding to them on an ongoing basis. ECE and ITI did assist in the 2022-2023 fiscal based on need but they are largely funded from federal programs to deliver training. I know they currently have applications in, and they're waiting to hear on that long-term funding. So ECE sits on the Mine Training Society board as our GNWT rep. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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The Chair

The Chair Ronald Bonnetrouge

Mahsi. Ms. Nokleby.

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Katrina Nokleby

Katrina Nokleby Great Slave

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I'll make sure to follow up with the ECE Minister when he sits in the hot seat.

My last questions are around the scientific collaborative research projects. I'm always a big, big proponent of this type of work. We've only seen an increase in the number of universities and other institutes that are in the North and working and providing great collaborative relationships in that area.

Can the Minister speak a little bit more maybe to, we obviously -- we didn't spend anything last year it looks like but then we're back up to the 350. What do those projects entail, and do we see -- or do we anticipate an increase in this area mostly, I would assume, from other funding sources such as those universities? Thank you.

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The Chair

The Chair Ronald Bonnetrouge

Mahsi. Minister.

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Caroline Wawzonek

Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I just wanted to note, so a detailed reporting of which universities and for which projects receives this money is in the grants and contributions results reports for 2021-2022. That would give a bit more of a sense of what's been ongoing, which I'm also happy to provide directly just rather than reading it out. It is an NTGS administered funding. Mr. Chair, I think I've missed a thread of what the question was. Let me see if the deputy minister wants to add anything, sorry.

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The Chair

The Chair Ronald Bonnetrouge

Deputy minister.

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Strand

I don't have much more to add. But these are based on -- they change annually based on the research needs and the length of the projects that the NTGS has with different academia and different institutions. And further to the Minister, yes, we can provide a detailed description of them. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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The Chair

The Chair Ronald Bonnetrouge

Mahsi. Any further questions from committee on this section?

Not seeing any, please turn to page 234. Industry, Tourism and Investment, minerals and petroleum resources, operations expenditures summary, 2023-2024 Main Estimates, $16,469,000. Does committee agree?

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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The Chair

The Chair Ronald Bonnetrouge

Member for Frame Lake, what's the...

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Kevin O'Reilly

Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake

Mr. Chair, I move that the chair rise and report progress.

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The Chair

The Chair Ronald Bonnetrouge

There's a motion on the floor to report progress. The motion is in order and non-debatable. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.

---Carried

I will now rise and report progress.

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The Deputy Speaker

The Deputy Speaker Lesa Semmler

May I have the report. Member for Deh Cho.

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Ronald Bonnetrouge

Ronald Bonnetrouge Deh Cho

Madam Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 57, and Tabled Document 813-19(2), and would like to report progress, and that Bill 57 is ready for third reading. And, Madam Speaker, I move that the report of the Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Mahsi.

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The Deputy Speaker

The Deputy Speaker Lesa Semmler

Thank you. Members, do I have a seconder for the Committee of the Whole? Member for Range Lake. The motion is in order and non-debatable. All those in favour? All those opposed? All those abstaining? The motion is carried.

---Carried

Third reading of bills. Orders of the day. Mr. Clerk.

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Clerk Of The House Mr. Tim Mercer

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Orders of the day for Thursday, February 27th, 2023, 1:30 p.m.

  1. Prayer
  2. Ministers' Statements
  3. Members' Statements
  4. Returns to Oral Questions
  • Oral Question 1343-19(2), Impacts of COVID-19 on Education
  1. Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Oral Questions
  4. Written Questions
  5. Returns to Written Questions
  6. Replies to Commissioner's Address
  7. Petitions
  8. Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills
  9. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
  10. Tabling of Documents
  11. Notices of Motion
  12. Motions
  13. Notices of Motion for First Reading of Bills
  14. First Reading of Bills
  15. Second Reading of Bills
  • Bill 64, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, No. 3
  1. Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
  • Bill 23, An Act to Amend the Public Utilities Act
  • Bill 29, Resource Royalty Information Disclosure Statute Amendment Act
  • Bill 61, An Act to Amend the Ombud Act
  • Committee Report 40-19(2), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 61: An Act to Amend the Ombud Act
  • Minster's Statement 264-19(2), Response to the NWT Chief Coroner's Report on Suicide
  • Tabled Document 681-19(2), Government of the Northwest Territories Response to Committee Report 26-19(2): Report on the Child and Family Services Act - Lifting Children, Youth and Families: An All of Territory Approach to Keeping Families Together
  • Tabled Document 694-19(2), Northwest Territories Coroner Service 2021-2022 Early Release of Data
  • Tabled Document 813-19(2), Main Estimates
  1. Report of Committee of the Whole
  2. Third Reading of Bills
  • Bill 57, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2022
  1. Orders of the Day

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The Deputy Speaker

The Deputy Speaker Lesa Semmler

Thank you, Mr. Clerk. This House stands adjourned until Monday, February 27th, 2023 at 1:30 p.m.

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The House adjourned at 5:53 p.m.