Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I will table the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “Headline Statements from the Summary for Policymakers” from their fifth assessment of the physical science basis for climate change. I’d like to ask the Minister of Environment, would the Minister please confirm that this government accepts the latest report from the IPCC and that this government understands that “continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and that limiting climate change will require substantial and sustained reductions on of greenhouse gas emissions” very soon...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just had a quick question. I’m pleased to see the work going ahead on Prelude Lake Park. It’s an area that is looking a little rough, like it’s been rode pretty hard. But I’m wondering: There’s a big issue on parking, and I know the Minister has heard about this sort of thing. The residents and the region, the visitors, and even the residents of the park itself are not able to use it because there are people that have cabins out on the lake and as often as not they’re squatters’ cabins that are using the facility, the parking spaces for long-term parking and stuff. Will...

Besides environmental sustainability, such an approach would restore earth systems, ensure diversity and self-sufficiency of community economies, support our cultures, and yield distributed benefits across all of our residents. Let’s take charge of this parade and make it happen.

I will have questions for the Minister of Environment. Mahsi.

I just want to throw out, too, my concerns on Stanton. I’m not quite as easygoing as Ms. Bisaro. A few years from now to start, you know, this is long overdue. It’s another one that’s been on the books for me now for seven years and I think we are starting to move forward rather than backwards as we did for a good part of those seven years, but now we’ve been planning for a number of years. The very modest amount in this year’s budget is pretty insignificant to the cost that we’re talking about for the Stanton Territorial.

So I’m expecting to see a substantive proposal for funding brought...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don’t see any item for the Avens facility. I thought we were going to support some kind of planning study for that infrastructure. Could I maybe get an update on where we’re at on that? Thank you.

Could we likely add the ongoing work with the Avens Seniors as a possible facility that we could put on the books at some point soon with that?

Thanks to the Minister for that information. Could I get the Minister to commit to bringing forward a strategy for meeting those needs over the long term – and specifically I’m talking about infrastructure needs – to committee once he’s got the numbers in a few weeks and has the opportunity to develop such a plan?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Welcome to the Minister and staff here. I wanted to ask about, in a general sense, the long-term sense, assisted-living facilities, extended-care facilities across the Northwest Territories, and I believe it was the projections of the Avens Seniors’ Society that estimated an equal or greater than tripling of seniors needing care in the next 15 years. I’m wondering: Is that consistent with the Minister’s knowledge, and further to that, just to get the questions in here, what is our strategy for addressing the need, whatever the Minister’s estimate of it is, and are we on...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will look forward to those numbers. Yesterday the Minister of ENR stated in our House that the government and ENR have already decided we can manage the risk from fracking. We know that increasing greenhouse gas emissions is against all the best possible scientific advice we can have. We know the impacts of climate change are already having soaring costs to the people of the NWT and the planet.

If Sahtu oil is proven, how does the Minister propose to manage the risks caused by fracking a very large but unknown amount of fossil fuels so they can be burned and the...

That was all I had, Mr. Chair. I appreciate those comments.