Committee Motion 371-19(2): Tabled Document 813-19(2): 2023-2024 Main Estimates - Legislative Assembly - Deferral of Department (Page 5), Carried  Thank you, Madam Chair. I am here to present the 2023-2024 Main Estimates for the Department of Environment and Climate Change. Overall, the department's estimates propose an increase of $2.671 million or 2.2 percent over the 2022-2023 Main Estimates. These estimates support the

Committee Report 47-19(2): Standing Committee on Social Development Report on Homelessness Prevention: Supporting Pathways to Housing NWT Residents  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, Your Standing Committee on Social Development is pleased to provide its Report on Homelessness Prevention: Supporting Pathways to Housing for NWT Residents, and commends it to the House. Standing Committee on Social Development Report On Hom

Minister's Statement 329-19(2): Celebrating Engineers and Geoscientists in the Northwest Territories  Mr. Speaker, the knowledge and skills of professional engineers and geoscientists are vital in meeting the priorities of our government and in supporting the quality of life for Northerners. As Minister of Infrastructure, I know how important these professions are to achieving ou

Member Statement 1428-19(2): Natural Disasters  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, for my statement today I am going to talk about the disaster assistance policy under the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. Mr. Speaker, last year, the Government of the Northwest Territories completed a comprehensive review of MA

Minister's Statement 321-19(2): Infrastructure Climate Change Adaptation  Mr. Speaker, the Government of the Northwest Territories has mandate commitments to strengthen its leadership and authority on climate change and to ensure that climate change impacts are specifically considered when making government decisions. Mr. Speaker, the Department of In

Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act  Participants Had Serious Concerns About Carbon Tax Approach Committee sought public feedback on Bill 60 with a public notice and targeted engagement letters to those who may have had an interest in the bill. Committee received written submissions from: The Northwest Territory M

Question 1415-19(2): Climate Change  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we know to mitigate the impacts of climate change we need resilient infrastructure that is done in collaboration with communities. What planning has occurred to begin to develop an all-season road to the community of Gameti by the Department o

Question 1415-19(2): Climate Change  Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the short answer is yes. And I'm so excited to deliver a Minister's statement tomorrow that talks about some of the examples that we're doing in terms of how climate change is impacting our infrastructure, including our roads. So, ye

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.

Member's Statement 1402-19(2): Winter Road  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, climate change is impacting our ability to get fuel, food, and other resources into small communities. The winter road system we currently use is vulnerable to climate change. In fact, the winter road to Gameti opened on February 27th. This wi

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