Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today is V-Day, a day when we focus on the tragic violence against women and girls in the North. You can’t get through a newspaper without reading of these horrors across the NWT. Our non-government organizations are our public record and our own Assembly Members place this issue at the top of the public agenda. Despite GNWT program action, the numbers and suffering mount.

We all know the facts and we must act. Here are some priorities for action, priorities that I’ve collected directly from the YWCA Yellowknife and the Centre for Northern Families.

First, the government...

Page 11-22, Transportation, activity summary, highways, grants and contributions, grant, $96,000.

...to please escort the witnesses into the House. Mahsi.

I’d like to ask the Minister to please introduce his witnesses. Minister McLeod.

Mr. Chairman, he has indeed. I managed to bend his ear a bit myself. I appreciate that he was well qualified to do this job. How many personnel do we have in the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Office? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Mr. McLeod.

On page 11-7 are the operations expenditure summary for Transportation. We’ll defer that until after consideration of the details. Please turn to page 8 and we’ll start there with Transportation, information item, infrastructure investment summary. Agreed?

Page 11-30. Transportation, activity summary, community access program, grants and contributions, contributions, $980,000.

I believe that’s actually coming up shortly, minerals and petroleum resources. Would that be the most appropriate place? It sounded like it to me, but I’ll let you be the judge of the most appropriate place for your questions. That’s on page 12-19.

Thanks to the Minister for those remarks. I think that’s pretty exciting technology that we’re talking about. On the Lutselk’e mini-hydro project I want to find out what the process is for determining whether or not we get the green infrastructure dollars that makes that project a go and how much do we need. That can be a time-consuming application process. Have we started that process towards achieving those resources?

I guess my last question with this is: is there a change in process here for the people interested in applying for these dollars and if there is, will you take steps to make them well aware of that? Thank you.