Bill 100: Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures) 2024-2025, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'll keep it short so I'm not keeping everybody from dinner and cocktails. So I just want to say that I do support this budget. I'm happy to see a lot of infrastructure projects going forward. 100 percent road funding that can't be used for houses, so

Ms. Nokleby's Reply  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm going to try to do this one from the heart because for me that's when I feel like I always am able to speak my best. So I've got a couple notes here and I'll forgive -- everybody will have to forgive me if I forget to mention someone that has been th

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I will probably miss some Great Slave residents in all of this. I can't see much of the gallery, so I apologize in advance. First, I'd like to start with recognizing my friend and constituent Garrett Cochrane who is a city councillor and a resident of

Member's Statement 1661-19(2): Critical Infrastructure Funding  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would be remiss if I didn't speak about one of my favorite topics one last time in this Assembly, Infrastructure. When I say that word, one's mind often turns to roads and buildings, airports, and bridges. But really Infrastructure encompas

Bill 65: Builders' Lien Act, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I echo my colleague's concerns with this bill. There were a lot of things I think that could have been done differently. I have my regrets for how it all progressed in the sense of we did get bogged down on something, but it was an important conversation t

Committee Motion 524-19(2): Committee Report 52-19(2): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Rules of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly- Strangers, Carried  Thank you, Madam Chair. And to answer my colleague's question, no, I won't be now having a baby in order to take advantage of these. My colleague from Nunakput, not Kam Lake, sorry. I did want to say -- echo the sentiments as well that, you know, having been a part of this Assem

Committee Motion 512-19(2): Bill 80, Dental Hygienists Profession Statutes Amendment Act - amend Clause One, Defeated  Thank you, Madam Chair. I won't go on and on about the budget either. But I just wanted to say that one thing that I really like about this budget is all the roadwork that's in it. And what I really, really like about the roads and bridge work is a lot of it is 100 percent funded

Committee Motion 512-19(2): Bill 80, Dental Hygienists Profession Statutes Amendment Act - amend Clause One, Defeated  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just don't accept these reasons that are being provided as to why this date needs to be pushed back even further. There's no reason that this could not be done with a professional association somewhere else. We have seen that in numerous other professions

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you. Yeah, I would definitely quantify or qualify that as immeasurable, really, the effects that this could have on people in those -- in those regions. I had a question, but I don't remember it. So thank you, Mr. Chair. And I appreciate the Member for her work on this. Tha

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Has the Member had any -- and this is probably quite a high -- or wishful question. But does she have any idea how much not having this dental hygienist practice or this ability to have preventative care is really costing us as a territory? Was there any wor

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the Member bringing this bill forward as well, and it was interesting to be the deputy chair on a Private Member's bill and get to learn that kind of aspect of it. The Member did hear me say about the idea of being maybe innovative and adding t

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Speaker -- or sorry, Mr. Chair. Maybe next go around. Mr. Speaker, I'm quite frustrated with this entire process and how this has gone. You know, the decisions and reasons that were given to me, or to us as a committee from the department and the Minister regardin

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, Bill 80, Dental Hygienists Profession Statutes Amendment Act, received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on March 30th, 2023, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Social Development for review. The standing committee held a publi

Question 1622-19(2): Location of Yellowknife-North Slave Campus of Aurora College  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So reading through all that, the answer's no, there was no discussion about them being the landlords of the future facility. I guess where I kind of struggle with this, we're talking about economic development. We're talking about land claims. We know at

Question 1622-19(2): Location of Yellowknife-North Slave Campus of Aurora College  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. They may have been looked at, but I don't think they were really considered given that I have not been able to find any information on why Tin Can Hill was selected out of all of these groups. The Minister speaks to the fact of the lack of area for expans