Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.
Debates of June 10th, 2024
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Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it was leveraging from the ratio from last year's mining incentive program, so it would be based on company reporting. Thank you.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Shauna Morgan Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Does the department or the Minister intend to do any independent economic analysis to verify those claims that participants are reporting, especially given that if they're the ones getting the money there's definitely an incentive -- no pun intended, although there's a pun there -- to make those figures look as good as possible? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it's all assessment work that gets reviewed by our professional geologists, and there are specific reporting requirements that they have to adhere to at the end of their program. And so because the geologists are well versed in the sector and aware of what costs should come in at, there's a natural vetting that takes place in that process. Thank you.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Shauna Morgan Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chair. And to be clear, I mean, I'm aware that there is independent geological analysis done of the, you know, geological claims that are being made, but I'm looking for more of an independent analysis by an economist. But I'll leave that for now. And last question on that is were there any recommendations coming from that evaluation done in 2020, and if so, have those recommendations been actually implemented? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'd like to give the deputy minister the opportunity to speak in detail about that. Thank you.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Pamela Strand
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, there was a number of recommendations, and we implemented all of them. They ranged from including advanced exploration projects, an earlier version of MIP only was exploration. So that eligibility was included. Secondly, we created a transparent scoring rubric for all proponents so they can see what we're looking for, and then we will tell them how they scored in each of those categories afterwards so they can improve for the next year. And then lastly, flexibility for multi-year funding. Programs need to know that they can have funding from year to year, and so we at ITI have a multi-year contribution policy. And, you know, because the middle of the winter field season falls right at year end, and so do you stop March 31st? You know, and so although we need our budgets, they wanted that flexibility. So those were the changes that we made, and there's a lot of good context in the program evaluation. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Shauna Morgan Yellowknife North
That's fine. I mean, I look forward to reading their report and following up. But I do think we need to have some more independent evaluation of the program before, as my colleague recommended, we, you know, start radically increasing the funds that we're putting into this line item. Thank you.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
The Chair Richard Edjericon
Thank you. Was there any further questions? Thank you, I am going to continue on. Please turn to page 240.
Industry, Tourism and Investment, minerals and petroleum resources, operations expenditure summary, 2024-2025 Main Estimates, $15,690,000. Does the committee agree?
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
The Chair Richard Edjericon
Thank you. Moving on to tourism and parks beginning on page 243 with information items on page 247. Are there any questions? I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Kate Reid Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Could the Minister please speak to the decrease to the visitor information centres? I see here in 2022-2023, it was 161,000, and then it jumped in 2023-2024 to 411,000, and now it's down again to 296,000. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the primary driver of that is we have a visitors centre that's actually located outside of the Northwest Territories in the Yukon. It's the Dempster Delta Visitor Information Centre. It is in a -- on a piece of land in a building that we leased, and the Indigenous government on whose land that sits would like that facility back. And so that facility is going to be no longer. And ITI is looking at other ways that it can ensure that visitors to the area and to the region have access to information about the Northwest Territories. So, for example, in the Dawson visitor information centre and the Whitehorse visitor information centre, they have agreed to have information on the Dempster Highway and up to Tuk and all the wonderful ways you can get into the Northwest Territories and the great things you can do in those locations. Thank you.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th
Denny Rodgers Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, just briefly -- and I'm assuming maybe following up on my colleague's question -- I notice that the seasonal positions in the Beaufort Delta dropped by three coming up in this year. Can the Minister speak to why we're no longer required to have those positions in Inuvik? Thank you.
Committee Motion 30-20(1): Deferral Motion - Tabled Document 111-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2024-2025
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 11th