Question 942-19(2): Northwest Territories Housing Corporation Plans Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And it's good to hear what they're -- the Minister's reply on that, is that when we say we talk about working with aboriginal governments and that kind of thing, we still need to work and build that confidence and trust with the aboriginal governments. For
February 26th, 2022Assembly debate Page 3531 Oral Questions
Question 942-19(2): Northwest Territories Housing Corporation Plans Yeah, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister share with the House their plans as to how they're going to deal with the -- all units in the Northwest Territories, as to how they're going to deal with it, whether they're going to devolve it to the communities or is there O and M
February 26th, 2022Assembly debate Page 3531 Oral Questions
Question 942-19(2): Northwest Territories Housing Corporation Plans Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I was reviewing the four-year capital plan, sorry, MLA plans for the Northwest Territories, and it talks about increased number of affordable housing and reduced cost housing needs. Also yesterday the Minister of Housing talked about a new vision statement
February 26th, 2022Assembly debate Page 3530 Oral Questions
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters Just one more I think. I'm just thinking about the -- on the Giant Mine public hearing, we had many intervenors or proponents etcetera, like DFO, department of the environment, and all the aboriginal groups, etcetera. So if you were to find in your reports and fish studies etcete
February 24th, 2022Assembly debate Page 3508 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah, I think this is a -- be a discussion on this one here. I just wanted to let you know that I was also involved at the Mackenzie Valley Impact Review Board as a chairman for six years and we also were really concerned about the water and transboundary
February 24th, 2022Assembly debate Page 3506 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters That concludes my questions. Thank you.
February 23rd, 2022Assembly debate Page 3474 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess during your investigation and trying to determine the type or magnitude of reclamation you guys are looking at, I guess I'm wondering once you guys determine, say at Ptarmigan Mine, if -- that used to be a gold mine, and I'm assuming that there's
February 23rd, 2022Assembly debate Page 3474 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for that clarification earlier because I was the chairman for the Impact Review Board, and I've been through that as well, so thank you. Another question to Mr. Chairman is that now that -- I guess I want to know how's the department workin
February 23rd, 2022Assembly debate Page 3473 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters Thank you for that. Now that you told me those numbers on that, has your department -- or to the Minister, has your department gone out to figure out the actual cost to remediate these mine sites in broad numbers so we -- I don't see any numbers here but I'm asking that question
February 23rd, 2022Assembly debate Page 3473 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters Thank you for your answer. Also, can you tell me exactly how many contaminated sites are there, we're looking at here? I'm assuming you guys did the study, that for the Northwest Territories. The question is to the Minister. Thank you.
February 23rd, 2022Assembly debate Page 3473 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. I just had a question for the Minister. Since devolution, it's my understanding that the contaminant sites, does the GNWT take responsibility of the contaminated sites, or is it -- my understanding it's still the responsibility of the Government of Can
February 23rd, 2022Assembly debate Page 3472 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah, and I think -- thank you for your answer. And you also mentioned that you're also working with the local harvesters as well I'm assuming, and if you are, then you're also working closely with the Indigenous governments as well and to put an end to s
February 23rd, 2022Assembly debate Page 3469 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters So 72 there, the other thing is that I know last year we'd -- there was in the news where there was wasted meat that was found. You know, in the Dene culture, you know, we don't like to waste meat. We harvest what we need and that kind of thing. So I guess maybe you could help ex
February 23rd, 2022Assembly debate Page 3469 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters Thank you. Well, just reviewing these couple of pages here, including the graphs and that in there, and then also on page 69, it talks about activities. And I guess for me what stands out as we go through this section here is that we talk about wildlife, fish -- I know it's a lit
February 23rd, 2022Assembly debate Page 3469 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole On Bills And Other Matters Thank you, Mr. Chairman, thank you. This section I just want to make sure, are we -- I know we got the time limit in going through this. Is it -- or do we go through page by page and then we go through ten minutes of it? Or just can I get some clarification on that? Thank you.
February 23rd, 2022Assembly debate Page 3468 Consideration in Committee of the Whole on Bills and Other Matters