Member's Statement 1559-19(2): Government of the Northwest Territories Intervention with Inuvialuit Regional Corporation Child and Family Services Case  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in 2021, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation passed its first law, Inuvialuit Qitunrariit Inuuniarnikkun Maligaksat, meaning the Inuvialuit Family Way of Life law. Maligaksat draws down jurisdiction for child welfare for Inuvialuit children an

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. Sticking with roads, I'm looking at the Tlicho All-Season Road to Whati. There is a $4 million carryover, which I kind of find interesting because as a committee we travelled to Whati, we talked about the road with them, and at the time there was, you know

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. Now I want to look at -- I'm just all about the highways. Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway, in your own area, for the $2.932 million that's a carryover. Over the last week, I noted on social media that there was -- people were reporting that they had seen ne

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  So I'm thinking I heard that it just goes back into the general coffer for the fund itself, and I'm looking over to just have someone confirm that for me.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm looking at the -- actually the community access road improvement, the regional, there's a million dollars being carried over there. I do understand that that one is hard to always budget for because of, you know, if a community doesn't follow through o

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. And in fact, I have said that before in this House, I'm pretty sure too, and I do agree, that it is cost to doing business that is higher in the North. And I've said it to my colleague beside me that isn't here today that I would rather see us overpay Indi

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. And it's my understanding that this project will also be subject to the Tlicho Agreement that the Minister was referring to earlier in the tourism section. And I'm just curious to know, given that that has delayed other projects in the past, what's being d

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just noting that while that's an overall of 14, it's actually we have $23 million coming and $9 million of a reduction there. So I just wanted to ask a little bit about the Frank Channel Bridge reduction of $9.6 million. I understand that is to do with

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. When speaking about a department being overtaxed, I in no way implied that the people working in that department are not working hard. My point being that there has been numerous unplanned-for disasters over the last several years, and this is the smallest

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. So would it not be fair, then, to say given the amount of emergency work and extra work that MACA has had other the last few years, given the number of disasters, that perhaps capacity within the department is stretched which then maybe would impact some o

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you. I appreciate the Minister's answer. So in its capacity with this type of money, is MACA providing technical advice to the communities, and are they helping with the preparation of the federal application process? Thank you.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I will ask the Minister a question. Of this $27 million that's being carried over, for municipalities -- or communities to access this money, is it application-based; do they have to fill out forms, do they have to provide proposals, etcetera, to get this

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I would be remiss to let $2.5 million go by and not ask a question. So can the Minister tell me does she know when this work will be complete? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to probably reiterate a few things that my colleagues have said, but I too am disappointed to see the amount of money lapsing. While I do recognize and understand the government's explanation that this money will come back in future years, what i

Question 1545-19(2): Fort Simpson Liquid Natural Gas Power Plant  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My apologies for not understanding. I just don't find this to be very clear what has been going on. When I asked before, I think two sittings ago, what was going on, why the plant hadn't been started when the funding had already been announced for the LNG,