Debates of June 11th, 2024

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This is from the 20th Assembly, 1st 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 housing.

Topics

Oral Questions

Members Present

Prayer

Funding Opportunities for Mental Wellness and Addictions Recovery Programs

Inuvik Petroleum Show

Change of Name Act

Sahtu Graduation Season

Changes to Student Financial Assistance Offerings for Indigenous STudents

Emgergency Shelters

Folk on the Rocks

Solutions for Education for Indigenous Students

Mental health

Supports for Autism

Frank Gruben Pride Festival

Laura Gareau Retirement

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery

Report 7-20(1): Standing Committee on Public Accounts Report on the Review of the 2022-2023 Public Accounts, Deemed Read

Report 7-20(1): Standing Committee on Public Accounts Report on the Review of the 2022-2023 Public Accounts, Received and Adopted by the Assembly

Report 7-20(1): Standing Committee on Public Accounts Report on the Review of the 2022-2023 Public Accounts, Response by Government within 120 Days

Report 8-20(1): Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on Committee's Initiation of a Project to Conduct a Review of the Land and Water Permitting Regulatory Framework

Report 8-20(1): Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on Committee's Initiation of a Project to Conduct a Review of the Land and Water Permitting Regulatory Framework, Received and Adopted by the Assembly

Acknowledgements

Autism Supports

Applying for a Name Change

Meeting Shelter Needs in Yellowknife

Chief Jimmy Bruneau School and Residential School System

Solutions for Education for Indigenous Students

Mental Health Training

Strategic Educational Planning for Sahtu

Incident Command System for Emergencies

Tabled Document 119-20(1): Letter dated December 6, 2023 from Alternatives North to the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and the Minister of Environment and Climate Change regarding Public Participation in a Regional Study under part 5.2 of the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act Tabled Document 120-20(1): Letter from the Assistant Deputy Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada to Alternatives North regarding Public Participation in a Regional Study under part 5.2 of the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act Tabled Document 121-20(1): Letter dated January 30, 2024 from the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to Alternatives North regarding Public Participation in a Regional Study under part 5.2 of the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act

Government of the Northwest Territories Response to Tabled Document 118-20(1)

Mackenzie Valley Highway Business Case Renewal

Consideration for the Hamlet of Enterprise to Receive Top-Up Funding

Extended Adjournment of the House to October 17, 2024

Bill 7: Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act 2024

Bill 8: An Act to Amend the Student Financial Assistance Act

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters

Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment

Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Housing Northwest Territories - Deferral of Housing Northwest Territories

Report Of Committee Of The Whole

Orders Of The Day

Committee Motion 31-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from the Frame Lake.

June 11th

Julian Morse Frame Lake

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Could I get a bit more detail on kind of what's planned for the builds for this year? Is the Minister able to share any details with us on what exactly they're planning to do with the money?

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If Vice-President Martin could help me with that answer to be more explicit. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you. I'll go to the vice-president.

June 11th

Jim Martin

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So as noted previously, this is an updated number for this fiscal, so we have $107 million planned for investment this fiscal year. That's comprised of the following: 283 units for modernization and improvement repair projects. We have 65 that we're currently completing new public housing units. We have transitional housing projects that are underway, and that's going to be ten beds. We have biomass projects on the books right now that will support, in the plan, 99 units, public housing units, to be supported with biomass solutions. We had just recently completed in the plan a four-plex, market housing four-plex in Tulita. We're also in the plan with 75 public housing replacement projects. And that covers the majority of the plan. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Frame Lake.

June 11th

Julian Morse Frame Lake

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. And please forgive me, I'm kind of writing down all these numbers, and it's all looking like quite a bit of -- this is actually quite a bit of activity. Can the Minister's staff just clarify, all of this that was just listed is occurring in 2024-2025?

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.

June 11th

Lucy Kuptana Nunakput

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Frame Lake.

June 11th

Julian Morse Frame Lake

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's an impressive amount of work, I must say. I don't know, I'm kind of left sitting here thinking, like wow, we should be telling people about this. This is really exciting stuff. Maybe you are and maybe it's just been falling on deaf ears, I'm not sure. So help me understand, then, so we're spending $107 million. Where does this $60 million of uncommitted funding come into that number?

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

June 11th

Lucy Kuptana Nunakput

The number that the MLA is referring to is primarily made up of the number for the 50-unit build in Yellowknife and public housing replacement for 2024-2025 to be tendered, yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Frame Lake.

June 11th

Julian Morse Frame Lake

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that clarification. So while the funding may not be tendered, when we say uncommitted there are projects slated for that funding, so that's -- that funding is -- the $60 million is part of this list of builds that you listed out for me -- I'm not going to go through them all again, but it's part of that to occur in 2024-2025?

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

June 11th

Lucy Kuptana Nunakput

Yes, that is correct, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you. I'll go back to the Member from Frame Lake.

June 11th

Julian Morse Frame Lake

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. Last but not least, I would appreciate it -- it would be much easier for me to keep track of all this -- if the department was able to give us kind of a one or two sheet kind of just summary of this, all the information she just provided me, just so I can have it on hand if that's okay, in writing.

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Okay, thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.

June 11th

Lucy Kuptana Nunakput

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, we can provide that, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Okay, we're having a good day. Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Frame Lake.

June 11th

Julian Morse Frame Lake

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's going to be it for me for questions on this page. That was a lot of information. Thank you to the Minister and her staff for giving that to me.

June 11th

The Chair Richard Edjericon

Thank you. Any further questions from Members for page 379? We'll go to the Member from Inuvik Boot Lake.

Debates of June 11th, 2024

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