Question 1415-19(2): Climate Change  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, people in my region are concerned about ice roads given the changing climate. My question for the Minister, has Infrastructure been tracking the impact of climate change on the life of our winter roads? Thank you.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair, and I'm glad to hear the Minister acknowledges that this is a concern. I think another piece that really needs to be acknowledged here is the impacts of climate change and the extreme weather events that we're now seeing as a result of that. The increased

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, so there's several stages of doing the asset management work. The frontend piece is a -- it's information gathering. So, you know, so the community government gathers all the information on its assets. MACA also has information it gathers. You know,

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. You talk about, I guess, climate change adaptation. And I'm just thinking about, I guess, the community of, I guess, Hay River and K'atlodeeche, the reserve, and the ones on the south side of the lake. We have Taltson there which is spilling over excess en

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. So as community governments and MACA become aware of I guess common themes across community governments, we would work to update our templates and our guidance documents to community governments. For example, the Member mentioned emergency preparedness. So

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. As the Minister noted, we don't have any funding increases for staff in these main estimates, and there's no requests being brought forward. However, we are looking at internally where we do need additional support, and community planning is definitely a k

Question 1396-19(2): Food Security  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the specific implementation of the federal funds is being negotiated literally right now. What I can say is that there are five priority areas that were negotiated between the provinces, territories, and federal government. And they are reflec

Minister's Statement 302-19(2): Energy Management Strategy and Blueprint  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to inform this House that the draft NWT energy management strategy is out for public feedback until February 21, 2023. This strategic approach will support both Housing NWT's energy goals and objectives, as well the strategic obje

Ms. Cleveland's Reply  Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, this is the Northwest Territories and we do things a little different up here. The way we live, work, and govern together is different than southern Canada. It's a product of a different history. Madam Speaker, the North continues to be a

Question 1370-19(2): Arctic Council  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So thank you for the clarification. I was kind of wondering what the line of questioning was going to be. So no, the Arctic Council has not met in the last two years because of Russia being the chair and the geopolitical issues that are going on right now

Question 1370-19(2): Arctic Council  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the GNWT is involved in any work associated with the Arctic Council as they were just delegates, I guess. But it's not in regards to military or anything like that. It's climate change research, ocean management, Arctic shipping, waste managem

Member's Statement 1355-19(2): Arctic Council  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, since the invasion of Ukraine, the Arctic Council has paused all meetings. The Arctic Council is a forum meant to promote cooperation, coordination, and interaction among the Arctic states and Arctic Indigenous peoples. The work of the Arctic

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Mahsi for that. Yes, you're not generating enough anyways in business and I always mention that we treat housing, in our communities anyways, as a social program because of the fiduciary responsibility of the federal government to First Nations to provide housing. And that's the

Mr. O'Reilly's Reply  Merci, Monsieur le President. The 2023-2024 Main Estimates present pretty much a status quo budget for this government. I am going to talk about what's in the budget, what should be in it, and also about some priorities for the next Assembly in terms of fiscal sustainability. Wh

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a little bit of a list here today. So I'd first like to start with recognizing Jennifer McManus, the vice-president of the Red Cross for Alberta and the Northwest Territories who has provided a lot of help to us over the past few years through clima