Bill 31: Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures) No. 1, 2025-2026, Carried  Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Nunakput that Bill 31, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures) No. 1, 2025-2026, be read for the third time. Mr. Speaker, I would request a recorded vote.

Bill 31: Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures) No. 1, 2025-2026, Carried  Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Nunakput, that Bill 31, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures) No. 1, 2025-2026, be read for the second time. This bill makes supplementary appropriations for infrastructure expenditures for the Gov

Bill 31: Bill 31, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures) No. 1, 2025-2026. Deemed Read  Mr. Speaker, I wish to present to the House Bill 31, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures) No. 1, 2025-2026, to be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Question 761-20(1): Monitoring and Review of Procurement Contracts  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there's a host of different opportunities -- or possibilities here too. And certainly could be anything from, you know, looking at whether or not there's been a breach of contract in a more extreme circumstance, and then that could then lead t

Question 761-20(1): Monitoring and Review of Procurement Contracts  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So a couple of the departments are involved. I can say that for in terms of BIP component and whether or not a business complies and continues to comply with BIP, that is monitored regularly through folks at ITI, and whether or not there's -- and then on t

Question 761-20(1): Monitoring and Review of Procurement Contracts  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm not in a position to speak to a specific procurement event here on the floor of the House. Certainly would be happy to find the details. We do, if there's a procurement event, obviously we are monitoring now to make sure that contracts are

Question 760-20(1): Development of Indigenous Procurement Policy  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A couple things. Firstly, is that, again, our existing procurement policies do, to the extent that we look at BIP and use BIP as a key tool, we are now enforcing through vendor performance management the opportunity to ensure that when someone says they're

Question 760-20(1): Development of Indigenous Procurement Policy  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There is a second component of what's happening right now in this space, and that is led, really, by staff at r. executive and Indigenous affairs is to have discussions with modern treaty holders, specifically to determine whether or not there are opportu

Question 760-20(1): Development of Indigenous Procurement Policy  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, Member's quite correct, this -- the Indigenous Procurement Policy is meant to be really the culmination and completion of a procurement review effort that began in the last government with a number of updates, a number of consolidations of our

Question 759-20(1): Healthcare Staff Recruitment and Retention  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we in the last government set up what's called the health recruitment unit. This is an entity that works in had concert with a team lead from the health authority. So we have a human resource specialist and an authority specialist working toge

Question 753-20(1): Whati Transmission Line  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I don't have an answer here. What I would like to suggest is that I'm going to commit to get an answer, and a proper answer. I think that's an exceptional question. Typically, when a project comes forward of this magnitude, there will be some

Question 753-20(1): Whati Transmission Line  Yes, Mr. Speaker. Happy to do so. The only -- what we -- the stage we were at, Mr. Speaker, is we're negotiating -- there is, of course, the infrastructure cooperation agreement with the Tlicho government, and so we were working with them to negotiate the final stages of a design

Question 753-20(1): Whati Transmission Line  Better than I could do, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you for the question. This is an area of tremendous importance. First and foremost, Mr. Speaker, any work that we're doing with or for the communities in Monfwi, we're doing in consultation and in involvement

Question 749-20(1): Guidelines for Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Government of the Northwest Territories  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At this point, Mr. Speaker, I mean, looking at using AI technology in areas of infrastructure and actually replacing type of different infrastructure systems is beyond what I'm speaking to here. What I'm looking at here is how the public service is using A

Question 749-20(1): Guidelines for Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Government of the Northwest Territories  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm aware that this work is well underway. I don't have the timeline in front of me, but it certainly will be this government and I would say, really, not the end of the government but fairly soon. So I'll certainly happily commit to get that