Tabled Document 916-19(2): Learning from the Response to COVID-19 Report and Recommendations  Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document: Learning from the Response to COVID-19 Report and Recommendations. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery(reversion)  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have quite a gathering here today in the gallery. We have a lot of Indigenous leaders and some of their officials because we're doing the first reading of bills on the United Nation of Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, the Implementation A

Question 1493-19(2): Regular Members Meeting with Federal Minister  Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to return to item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery.

Question 1493-19(2): Regular Members Meeting with Federal Minister  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know that the Speaker this morning started with that get in order but I'm feeling generous today, so I'm kind of feeling a little bit generous today. I already committed that I'd bring up the carbon tax as an issue. I will tell the Minister that the Regu

Question 1493-19(2): Regular Members Meeting with Federal Minister  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think what I'll do is, again, I'm going to put it back, I'm going to say that the chair of AOC should write a letter to the -- any Minister that they want to invite in the spirit of consensus government. But I will make a commitment because I do want to

Question 1493-19(2): Regular Members Meeting with Federal Minister  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Absolutely we are a consensus government, and everyone has role and responsibilities within this government. Like I say, I struggle to get meetings with federal ministers. My time is short. If anything, I'm trying to get meetings with the Indigenous govern

Question 1493-19(2): Regular Members Meeting with Federal Minister  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In honesty it's hard to get a meeting with any Minister, especially the prime minister. Often, we get half an hour. We're very focused. We got to get -- we tell them what our agenda is, etcetera. It's not -- my understanding when I talked to my staff befor

Question 1492-19(2): Income assistance Clawbacks  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I stated earlier I will follow up with the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, and actually all of Cabinet will have the discussions and see what we can do. We're not trying to penalize people. We're trying to support people. And that's why the

Question 1492-19(2): Income assistance Clawbacks  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Any time I meet with any federal minister, including the prime minister, I stand up for the people of the Northwest Territories otherwise I have no reason to be there, Mr. Speaker. In honesty, though, I will bring it up to Minister Vandal again. I had spok

Question 1492-19(2): Income assistance Clawbacks  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do know that the -- I was just talking to the Minister of housing, that the CERB payments aren't being deducted from the housing payments. We're trying to do what we can. I'll have a discussion with ECE to see what the issues are. However, I do want to s

Question 1492-19(2): Income assistance Clawbacks  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When it comes to the CERB payments, I do know that the Member had asked the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment about what we could do here. I don't know if it's just looking at the CERB payments when I lobby the federal government. What I've bee

Question 1487-19(2): Public inquiry into Cosmo 954 Crash  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I can't speak for the federal government, but I do believe in my heart that the federal government is talking about reconciliation and trying to figure out what that looks like. So, again, I'll look into what's happened with this, but I can't commit tha

Question 1487-19(2): Public inquiry into Cosmo 954 Crash  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think this is a good example. Like I said, I'm just learning about it, but it's an example of many things that have happened in the Northwest Territories. There's been, you know, either there's been mines, like you used the example Giant Mine. There'

Question 1487-19(2): Public inquiry into Cosmo 954 Crash  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm trying to figure out the question in that. I think there might be a couple in that one. I do thank the Member. I do kind of wish he would have given me a heads up because I was trying to rush and read what the Cosmos 954 was. It was in 1970 someth

Question 1486-19(2): Decentralization  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, I -- again, I think that it's always a concern when the majority of problems are in one community and we have many communities that we have to take care of. I know that we do try to make sure that we have regional positions for all departments within