Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, Bill 52, Elevators and Lifts Act, received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on May 31st, 2022, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment for review.

On September 28th, 2022, the standing committee held a public hearing and completed its clausebyclause review with the Minister of Infrastructure. The committee received no submissions on this bill.

I thank the committee for reviewing this legislation and the individual Members that may have additional comments. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that the Government of the Northwest Territories proactively disclose the information contained in the registry described in the section 13 of the act by making it publicly available without fees for access. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm rescinding the motion as the wording is not the same as the recommendation included in the committee report. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Pursuant to Rule 6.2(13) that allows the motion to be withdrawn before debate with the consent of the seconder, the Rule 9.1(7) which allows the motion to be moved into Committee of the Whole without a seconder, I wish to withdraw the Committee Motion 30319(2). Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Looking back, I guess I try to cross the whole Northwest Territories, I think we should be talking to Canada now in regards to the carbon tax and why do we have to pay? We're small enough in the territory. We have 35,000 people. It's just going to draw more hardship on our families, our young mothers in social housing in regards to and our elders that are private homeowners. There needs be more money given out instead of being starting to try to claw back. Can the Minister commit to talking to Canada in regards to working with them to see if we could, you know, not...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the GNWT, CRA provides a cost of living offset to individuals in the program to offset the costs of territorial carbon tax. Can the Minister of Finance look into implementing the cost of living to offset that IT provides Nunakput residents in the Beaufort Delta with the same assistance because it recognize their higher cost of living in a tiered system? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Make a statement, Madam Chair; we're failing. All the stuff that we're doing in all the major retrofits and stuff like that, like I asked them in regards to taking units the out, giving them to clients so we could get CMHC funding to get more units put into the community. Nothing. We tried to work with them. Nothing. All the stuff that we do with this Minister, we wear it as just like in the communities that she said she come to visit. I'm still waiting on numerous, probably three or four things that need to be done from those visits. So all this stuff that we're talking about right now, you...

Thank you for that. You know, home care, it works good until it's so much pressure on the family that they have to stay up 24 hours a day taking care of their mother or their father or their loved one that they're not going to want to let go. They're going to push themselves right to the very end until they have no choice, until they burn themselves out. And that's the kind of that's where we're from. That's where I come from. We don't want to let our elders go because once they're in Inuvik they're not going to come home.

Like, you know, working, I did talk to the Minister about this. I mean...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Yeah, I just for myself, I think like I did last week, you know, I called everybody out on suicide prevention. Now it's the same thing but it's in a different light we're using. We're using our youth now to give them opportunity. We don't give them they're pushed to the side, you know. We have to stop this in regards to making a way for them. We can't just say oh, youth are our future and not do nothing for them. We got to stand up for them and let in this House, and do something for them instead of just lip service. So I will be talking to the Minister, and I...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Thank you for that, Mr. Minister. We've been two years now we've been getting through the COVID pandemic. Now we're preCOVID, I've been asking for this 18 months ago, in regards to trying to do something for our adults, for our elders, for our youth, our young adults. So I think that if the funding is there, why aren't they doing it themselves? Why do we have to come forward and do the job for them? If they're able to the monies that they do get, Madam Speaker, for the territorial trials, it's territorials before you go for the main for the Arctic Winter Games. So...