Thank you, Madam Chair. So Madam Chair, let me just say, first of all, that the loss of the low carbon economy energy fund was a significant amount of money. It was significantly more than just what is shown here. I'm inclined to put it at -- yes, so it's closer to $5 million in total that we're losing. And I say that in that when we have had a loss of funding in that magnitude and there's some -- a program dollar that can be accessed through the federal government, yes, I am going to point people to go to the pot that exists elsewhere rather than take from the pot that has now been reduced by $5 million. You know, it's valuable to have energy efficiency reductions. It's just -- at the same time, we are struggling to pay for all the things. So if the federal government has put something out while taking a big thing away, I am pointing people back to that program. Would certainly want to know if folks, communities, governments in the Northwest Territories are being denied, because there may be political levers that we can pull to help support them and be happy to do that. Thank you.
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Shauna Morgan Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. I do understand where the Minister's coming from. I would just also point out though that -- I mean, this project had a budget line of $190,000, which is not going to change the world, but it's also not going to break our budget if we stepped in to avoid that the feds are leaving, hopefully temporarily. I would also point out, you know, we're seeing an elimination of the rebate program for electric bicycles. And it's only $10,000. And you could say that okay, well, it wasn't creating a huge impact because it was only $10,000, but it's also a very small amount of money, and it's been extremely popular, at least in Yellowknife and in my riding, and this, I think, fills a niche where, you know, we have a relatively small municipality where you don't necessarily need to drive everywhere but if you're pulling loads of things or you're pulling your kid around, it's really hard on a conventional bicycle, but the e-bike sort of fills that gap where for much of the year people actually can manage to get around this, you know, manageably-sized town without having to get in their car, and, you know, it makes life manageable and honestly more -- increases quality of life. And it does make a difference in reducing emissions, especially when transportation is one of our biggest sources of emissions. So I'm going to leave it at that but, you know, it was a small amount of money in the first place, and I think it does have value. Thank you.
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The Chair Sheryl Yakeleya
Thank you, Members. Thank you, Yellowknife North. If we have no further questions, we'll turn to page 271.
Infrastructure, energy and strategic initiatives, operations expenditure summary, 2024-2025 Main Estimates, $9,158,000. Does the committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Sheryl Yakeleya
Thank you. Moving on to programs and services beginning on page 276 with information on page 279. Are there any questions? No further questions, please turn to page 277.
Infrastructure, programs and services, operations expenditure summary, 2024-2025 Main Estimates, $14,575,000. Does the committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Sheryl Yakeleya
Moving on to regional operations beginning on page 280, with information items on page 282. Are there any questions? Member for Yellowknife North.
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Shauna Morgan Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. So under the highway operations budget, we've got $108 million for this coming fiscal year. Is any of that budget offset by federal funding? Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Shauna Morgan Yellowknife North
Okay, thank you, Madam Chair. And so I believe that we get a significant amount of money from the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program, the ICIP program. Is that all capital funding, or does any of that funding, which I believe is about $55.4 million, does that go into operations and maintenance of infrastructure?
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Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South
We're on our own in the operations and maintenance, Madam Chair.
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The Chair Sheryl Yakeleya
Thank you, Minister of Finance -- Infrastructure, sorry. Member for Yellowknife North. Apologize for that, sorry.
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Shauna Morgan Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. That was just the clarification I needed. Thank you.
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The Chair Sheryl Yakeleya
Thank you, Member for Yellowknife North. Any further questions? Member for Great Slave.
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Kate Reid Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. And just for funzies, I'm going to ask the Minister if she'll consider opening the DMV on Saturdays. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South
Thank you, Madam Chair. I mean, I can certainly consider it, but it's probably not going to happen.
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Kate Reid Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. Got to keep things lively.
I also just note that we're up ever so slightly from the previous mains, so I was just hopeful that maybe that was a little bit of extra of, you know, human resource dollars paid for on Saturdays but if that's not the case, I'll be quiet. Thank you.
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Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South
Madam Chair, I just want to point out there's an awful lot that can be done online now. And so I'm hoping to continue to improve the online services that folks have available to them so that they can do their DMV-related work any time, any day. Thank you.