Frieda Martselos

On page 23, Mr. Chair, the two agreements that have been concluded are two final transboundary agreements. Are there going to be consultation with Indigenous governments within the jurisdiction of the Northwest Territories before these are ratified?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm just going to make a couple comments. I just one of the comments that my one of my colleagues said about Indigenous governments.

Indigenous governments always facilitate that they always want to have control of the funds for housing. It goes back, like, 17 years now, and every time there was allocations of $59 million to the federal to the territorial government, it was just another roadblock for them to actually do to actually control the funds and do the work. So saying that because I know that's the way it was every time we met as a group.

I also want to just...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I too want to just express my appreciation I guess in the working relationship that I developed with Cabinet, and especially the Premier and the Minister of Health, and everyone. There has been times there will be times when we don't agree but we have to leave that at the door. And I think that the working relationship that I established with Cabinet is a good one. And some of the Ministers are more open than others, and that's always the case anyways in any political democracy.

I really would stress, though, that we are a consensus government, and many times I feel that...

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...

This is a really important part in community governments, especially in small communities. And I know that we're going to a polytechnic university very short in the future and hopefully in the next year or so. I guess I'm kind of wondering what is the oversight on these training programs? Because it's that is really important with the governance within the communities. Many times we run into you always hear on the news that oh, there's been deficiencies and all this in this such and such a community. There's an investigation going on and all these things. And you know, sometimes when you...

Thank you, Madam Chair. On page 356, there's an allocation to the program management of $1,072,000, and the training programs itself is 1.8, $1.83 million.

You know, the allocation of training in that program seems I mean, it takes $1 million of program management for 1.8. The balance doesn't seem quite right. So I was just I just wanted an explanation on why you have to have such a large program management for a course for training programs for $1.8 million. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Madam Chair, I also wonder how come we had, in youth centres in 2021 Actuals, we had $30,000 and then nothing for this coming these mains. I'm just wondering, we're always talking about encouraging our youth. We're always talking about the youth are the future generations of leadership. Is there any reason why there was no allocation for youth centres in the Northwest Territories? Thank you, Madam Chair.