Frieda Martselos

Mr. Speaker, the finance minister has been promoting the new government renewal initiative as a means to reducing costs for our government.

Can the Minister provide any estimates, any dollar amounts or projection data, which states how much money this initiative will save the government? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

In favour.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, according to the budget address for 20222023, business investment for 2020 was down minus 34.9 percent for the NWT.

Can the finance minister tell us what the government's plan is to turn those numbers around and increase business investment for the NWT? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

One question, does the school of community government also offer the governance process with the leaders that are elected? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So when you go down a little bit further, so the $886,000 in contract services, I assume that's part of the training program. Is that training done by Northerners, or is it brought in is someone brought in from southern entity? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Also under the youth contribution programs that develops the youth leadership, in 2021 we only spent well, because of COVID, I am sure, but we only spent $45,000 of the actuals. Is that why we were keeping the same amount of $225,000 within that in that line? Thank you, Madam Chair.

So if it's proposal based that means that any community could Madam Chair, anybody could any community or regional centre could put proposals in, anything to do with recreation or sport; right? Am I correct? Thank you, Madam Chair.

I don't have any other questions. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Office of the Fire Marshal, you know, it's been this is, we're in our third year, Madam Chair, and we have asked for briefings at the government operations committee and at various times, and we still never got that briefing and then we're in our third year as elected Members.

First of all, I also want to know how many people work in that office. And, you know, it has a lot to do with the relationship also, Madam Chair, with the business community and there are times when there's there has to be a really good balance between what that office does and communications...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the other day a very serious incident took place in my community of Fort Smith. A violent crime was committed, and it resulted in the death of someone in my community. The entire town was put on lockdown for at least 24 hours over the weekend, and a man hunt had ensued for the suspect who thankfully has now been apprehended as of yesterday afternoon.

Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the family of the deceased, the Webb family and the Tourangeau family, I want to thank all the residents of Fort Smith for the overwhelming amount of support that was given. The level...