Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the department is working with the Sahtu community governments. So some of the governments have community plans that are going far back as, let's say, November 2011, so there is work that obviously needs to be done and the department is working with and communicating with those communities to develop updated community plans. Thank you.
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
Daniel McNeely Sahtu
Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thanks to the Minister for that response there. Safety is paramount in all operations, whether you're working in private sector or industry. Having worked in a number of sectors here, it was quite common that we have a fire drill in our camp. So this is just a process to bring awareness on our response plans for the job sites were in place, so everybody's familiar with the practices and where to go and where the muster points are. So this will all be similar in getting our community governments ready, having that dialogue, the regional office go to Tulita or Coville or Deline, and have these discussions here on emergency response plans and if it does happen, well, you're fully aware. So I just share that as a comment. Thank you there, 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
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have one question for the Minister. Do all the communities that are outside of Yellowknife have a community siren to alert people in the community if there's an emergency? That's one way of doing it. 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. The only time I heard those in Hay River was for a curfew. So the community's responsibility is to have these sirens, the air raid sirens. I'm not sure if we have a list of communities that have them or not, but it's something we can try to figure out with our other stats that we carry for communities and get back to the Member with that.
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
Thank you. So this would be support and response to community governments in preparing for or responding to emergencies? So that would be one of their -- if they choose to do that and if communities choose to do that, that would be included in one of their budget items, would it? 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
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
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
Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
Yeah, it says here program management, it went down from -- well, this was because of the forest fire, responding to the forest fire and the flooding, for 2023-2024 from 166 to this current fiscal year 29,000 -- I mean $29 million. Sorry about that, $29 million. So I just wanted to ask the department how are they budgeting for the natural disaster, like, for this coming spring, summer?
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 going to pass that to the deputy minister. 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
Gary Brennan
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, so good question. The numbers do look odd here. But the way it works basically for emergency management for disasters is that once a disaster happens, we activate our disaster assistance policy, which is an executive council policy, and then we would go to the financial management board to seek appropriation for the amount of the damage that we think has happened. At that point in time, we'll be getting an appropriation.
So what we're seeing in the main estimates for 2024-2025 and the decrease, the 2024-2025 is the damage from the previous disasters that we've already had. And the funding for 2024-2025 is disasters -- so if something happens this year, it's not funded yet. It would happen after disaster happens. Thank you. B
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
Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
I was going to ask, too, I know last year, last summer, we brought forward Bill 98, an amendment to the Emergency Management Act. So I just wanted to ask the Minister if there's any update, or are there plan to update the disaster assistance policy?
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. There is a plan to review that policy once the afteraction review is completed. 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
Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
At the last Assembly, there were six new positions that was approved, and it seems like the six new position, it's all going to be in -- it's all in the headquarters, nothing in the regional. Is there any positions that's been allocated to the regions?