Question 580-16(5): Power Outages In Jean Marie River  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ve been kept up to date on the outages that have occurred and some of the concerns around there. I know, for example, in February there were a number of outages, some from a 10-minute outage to about a 40-minute outage. Some of it is equipment related an

Question 580-16(5): Power Outages In Jean Marie River  Thank you. I’ll have to get back to the Member on that, because the Power Corp has its capital replacement process as part of its rate structures as to when it can replace equipment. I do know that overall, from our side looking at the old Energy Coordinating Committee process, t

Question 580-16(5): Power Outages In Jean Marie River  Thank you. The issues of the outages is one that I’ve asked to get some additional information on from the Power Corporation and I’ll get that back to the Member, as well as I’ll have them communicate with the community. Thank you.

Question 584-16(5): Raising GNWT Priorities With The Federal Candidates For Western Arctic  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Indeed we have made it a practice as the Government of the Northwest Territories when a federal election is on, to put our positions forward on where our key concerns lie. We’ve done that, for example, around climate change and our infrastructure in the No

Question 584-16(5): Raising GNWT Priorities With The Federal Candidates For Western Arctic  We’ll follow up. Again, we don’t know if an election is going to be called, when an election is going to be called and all that timing, but we have made it a practice as the Government of the Northwest Territories to get our issues out there so that they can be discussed, part of

Question 584-16(5): Raising GNWT Priorities With The Federal Candidates For Western Arctic  Again, because, as the Member stated, we’re non-partisan in this Assembly, we have the same questions go to the candidates and we follow it up with the leaders of the parties with our positions. Much of the work on implementation to see the proof in the pudding, I think what the

Question 584-16(5): Raising GNWT Priorities With The Federal Candidates For Western Arctic  The Member does have a flair for making statements in this Assembly. Clearly, as the Member is a veteran of elections and election processes, he knows that any election process is a very difficult one, whether it is at a constituency level for the Legislative Assembly or the bigg

Question 570-16(5): Auditor General’s Report On The Special Audit Of The Deh Cho Bridge Project  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Let’s be clear on this: Cabinet did not overrule Transportation. The fact is this project was under the Department of Transportation and it is the initiative of the department and Minister to bring forward papers for discussions on that process.

Question 570-16(5): Auditor General’s Report On The Special Audit Of The Deh Cho Bridge Project  The process of any construction project coming forward, number one, the specific department would have to do a number of analyses in coming forward with a request for a decision. In this case, the Department of Transportation looked at many of those options and came forward with

Question 570-16(5): Auditor General’s Report On The Special Audit Of The Deh Cho Bridge Project  There was no waiving of notice of Members. It is a natural part of the decision to provide an exemption to indemnification where the process that was followed is a standard practice and has been in place since 1999. This decision to do that as a normal part of business -- and gov

Question 570-16(5): Auditor General’s Report On The Special Audit Of The Deh Cho Bridge Project  Again, the notifications particular to what the Member just stated about the amendment to indemnifications, the list is attached to the regulations. The Minister of Finance can provide a list of those that are included in the regulations. Again, this process does not, it is a nor

Committee Motion 43-16(5): Amend Clause 4 Of Bill 20, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member raises many points in his comments to the statement I made and I guess what I would do is reiterate the statement itself, that there has been much discussion since the signing of the agreement-in-principle about the speculation that the draft d

Committee Motion 43-16(5): Amend Clause 4 Of Bill 20, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, I think there were some comments made by the Member and I don’t know if this will just turn into a two-way discussion. He has his strong viewpoints. We have the language in the agreement-in-principle. I made a commitment in this House that in fact

Minister’s Statement 122-16(5): Taltson Hydro Expansion  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The purpose of my statement is to update Members on the Taltson Hydro Expansion Project. Late last year I asked the chair of the Northwest Territories Power Corporation to review the proposed business model for this project. Based on what has been report

Question 556-16(5): Compensation For Damages To Homes Resulting From Power Outages  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Power Corporation does have a policy that looks at claims filed for reasons of failure on the Power Corporation’s part, but I would say, as the Member has highlighted, the issue that was facing many communities in the Beaufort-Delta in the last week we