Question 109-19(2): Frank Channel Bridge Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not sure of any ranking structure within our capital plan, but I could definitely look to see if there is one. The department fully acknowledges that the Frank Channel Bridge does need to be replaced. In fact, we have been applying for funding, federa
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Question 107-19(2): Yellowknife Motor Vehicles Office Hours The Member is correct in that there is a lot of conversation that will go on within the Cabinet and which I would very much be okay with having a discussion with my colleague about your email. I have to say I was actually quite intrigued when I received your questions and did loo
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Question 107-19(2): Yellowknife Motor Vehicles Office Hours It is my understanding that it is not my place to be lobbying my colleague, the Minister, in that manner, so my answer to you would be no.
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Question 107-19(2): Yellowknife Motor Vehicles Office Hours Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the Member's acknowledgement about the difficulty of sometimes changing a process that has been going on a while. They have tried in the past to change some hours or to privatize the office here, and it didn't work well. Some of the issues in
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Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to take this moment to recognize two of the Pages with us today who are constituents of mine in Great Slave. I apologize for names, Gianne Mercado and Willem Jacobs. I thank them for their commitment and time to this work. I would also like to
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Minister's Statement 21-19(2): Round-up of Roundup Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Because I didn't talk enough already, here is my presentation here. The 19th Legislative Assembly has identified increasing resource exploration and development for the benefit of the people of the Northwest Territories, as a priority for this government.
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Minister's Statement 20-19(2): Airport Improvements Sorry, my apologies. Which one to start with, here. Airport improvements. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Making strategic investments in our transportation system is one of the priorities of the 19th Legislative Assembly. Investing in airport improvements will keep our communities conne
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Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried As I previously said, I commit to looking at the BIP policy to ensure and see what I can do to fix the errors that have been pointed out by the Regular Members and others to me. I don't want to speak to a specific company at this time. However, I continue to commit to updating th
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Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried Without knowing the legal ramifications of the grandfather clause, I worked for a company that was grandfathered in, and it was ridiculous to me that they were considered to be BIP when they were 60,000 employees around the world, more people than in the entire Northwest Territor
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Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried Thank you, Madam Chair. I recognize that there is a need to overhaul a lot of the policies and the procurement processes that are being used currently. As I've stated before, I am in my, sort of, collection mode, and I think you can ask most of the business community that I am no
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Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried I completely agree with the Member. Perhaps, I was misunderstanding what you were saying before. Yes, I would a hundred percent commit to having the business community develop their own comments and thoughts outside the GNWT influence. I think that is where you are trying to get
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Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried Thank you. Yes, the plan was always to engage and have that feedback from businesses. As I have been meeting with industry, I have been asking them to clearly reach out and provide the feedback. Perhaps it hasn't been written out and sort of formalized, "We are going to create th
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Question 94-19(2): Marine Transportation Services My understanding for the business model plans, that was in 2017. Infrastructure produced a comprehensive, multi-year business plan for MTS, and then they produced an update of that plan last year. They are presently working on the long-term business model that will support the bu
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Question 94-19(2): Marine Transportation Services I do acknowledge the Member's frustration with this process, so I commit to continuing to work with him to move forward. The contract for the services includes terms and conditions which the contractor must abide by. GNWT MTS management staff are responsible for ensuring the cont
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Question 94-19(2): Marine Transportation Services MTS has contracted ORSI due to their unique expertise in the recruitment and day-to-day management of offshore labour, so we do not have a current plan for the government to assume this function. We do have the marine training centre in Hay River, which is funded by Transport Can
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