Thank you, Mr. Chair. Like anything else new, there's always growing pains and that was no secret here. So there was a review done, and there was recommendations that were suggested. Those were implemented, and it's continually being worked on with the city of Yellowknife and the department to make sure that the review's been implemented and recommendations are followed through. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Debates of June 7th, 2024
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Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Shauna Morgan Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Final question here, is that review public? And can it be made public, if not? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
The Chair Richard Edjericon
Thank you. Was there any further -- okay. No further, I'm going to continue on now to the Member from the Deh Cho.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Sheryl Yakeleya Deh Cho
Thank you, Mr. Chair. On page 360, you're looking at the ground ambulance highway rescue. I mentioned this in a while back I wanted an ambulance in my community, and I'm so pleased to see that it's on this books here. So where is this ambulance going? Thank you. This ground ambulance.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Vince McKay Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm kicking myself in the butt for bringing this up when I was a town council member in Hay River.
This funding here is to support services that are already being provided. It's not a funding per se. It's more or less to assist services that are already existing. And it's not a new ambulance service or new ambulance for anybody. Hate to be the bearer of bad news. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Sheryl Yakeleya Deh Cho
Okay, so it's not coming to my region? That's where I thought it was going to. Anyways, how do I go about getting an ambulance in my region for safety on the highway? Currently we don't have an ambulance in my community, and that was something that the residents had brought up to me. So how do I do that? Thank you.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Vince McKay Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Currently there's no legislation or anything behind ambulance services in the Northwest Territories, and right now it essentially resides with your municipalities to set up those types of services. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Sheryl Yakeleya Deh Cho
Okay, that's good to know. Thank you so much. I don't have any further questions.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
The Chair Richard Edjericon
Thank you. Is there any further questions? No further questions, please turn -- are we sure now? Thank you. No further questions, please turn to page 359.
Municipal and Community Affairs, public and safety, operations expenditure summary, 2024-2025 Main Estimates, $2,959,000. Does the committee agree?
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
The Chair Richard Edjericon
Thank you. Moving on to regional operations, beginning on page 362 with information items on 365. Are there any questions? No further questions -- oh sorry, I'm going to go to the Member from the Sahtu.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Daniel McNeely Sahtu
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Here, my questions to the Minister in this chapter or activity is landfills. A landfill in one of the communities that I represent is actually terrible. It's at the point where it's probably a fire liability with the amount of debris that have compiled over the years. And there was some efforts to recycle. And is there any willingness there from the department with the programs that are identified in this activity, or on regional operations, to have a vehicle compressor station to compress these old relics and get them cubilized so they can get shipped out of the community? And there's other objects there, old appliances, old vehicles, that sort of thing. But I just ask that one question to the cleaning of the landfill.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Vince McKay Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The community can do some of their own work on the landfill, obviously like any other community; however, like in my Minister's statement the other day, we have the hazardous waste project going on, which is collecting some of the hazardous waste and compiling it and, at some point, hauling it out. So, yeah, I guess right now a lot of it lies with the community for the maintenance of the landfill. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Daniel McNeely Sahtu
Yeah, thanks, Mr. Chair. I was more or less asking if there's any outside type services here. As the Minister knows, the NWTAC that represents all the municipalities is experiencing a gap, and this gap or a shortfall has been going on for several Assemblies. So is there any additional funding that would help these communities, in particular mobilize a compressor that would compress that's old vehicles from community to community, similar to what the government had years ago in the DOT days here. They had a crusher that went from community to the community and stockpiled crushed material. It was a government-owned piece of property and got circulated around. Is there something in the department or some funding to help purchase this compressor that could do the same thing, going from community to community, to compress these old relics and get them ready for shipment to a designated landfill or recycling depot down south? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Committee Motion 28-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): 2024-2025 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department of Environment and Climate Change, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 7th
Vince McKay Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I guess what this kind of lies into is the -- as in my Minister's statement, we were speaking of the funding that was out there for the five regions for collecting the hazardous waste and basically compiling it and getting it ready to ship out. So what I can do is we can get the department, we can find out what activities are being done in those regions in regards to what activities are currently being done for the cleanup of those things, like more detailed stuff, I guess, like the cars. So we'll get back to you on that. But right now it is being worked on through the hazardous waste cleanup. Thank you, Mr. Chair.