Julie Green

Thank you. Another feature of the Yukon plan is that there are estimates for how much it will cost Yukon families for the price at the pump, and then per household for all fuel types. Are there similar calculations available for the NWT? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The question that I asked was about the rebates. I understand that that is in the next bill; the questions that I need to ask are in this bill.

Let me try this question. One of the things that Yukon is offering is that municipal governments will receive a share of revenues from the tax. Is this something that is in this bill? Yes. Municipal governments will pay the carbon tax, but also receive a share of the revenues. Did the Minister consider making that a provision of this plan? Thank you.

Is it possible for us to ask the Minister general questions about the bill, or is it only in the context of the clause-by-clause?

Thank you. Given the fact that they will be entering a writ period, as well, would you anticipate that the backstop would be implemented prior to their election? Thank you.

Thank you. How does the model of the estimated cost to households relate to COLO? Is it one-to-one or half-to-one? How does it relate? Thank you.

This information is information from the media, so it may not be in the kind of detail that the Minister would appreciate, but what it says here is that municipal governments will pay 2.5 percent of the total tax -- I take that to mean all types of fuels, not only heating fuel -- and receive 3 percent of the revenues. Did the government consider a similar approach? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I feel like I am playing some catch-up with this, as I am not part of the committee that looked at it. I heard the Minister's opening remarks and his assertion that the program that he is offering is better than the one that would be offered by the backstop, but when I did a simple Google search of how the Yukon was approaching the carbon tax, I noticed that there were some distinct advantages to their approach. I guess my first question would be whether the Minister considered making the rebate on a sliding scale geographically, so that people who live in smaller and...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is primarily an administrative act to set up the framework for commissioning new post-secondary institutions, whether they are public or private. The real weakness of this act is that it doesn't lay out, even in aspirational detail, the terms and conditions for commissioning Indigenous institutions, of which we already have one in the NWT: Dechinta Centre for Learning. It also doesn't lay out any of the criteria for the partnership model that the College nordique is pursuing.

The fault that I find with this bill in general is that it doesn't address the institutions...

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to talk about the urgent need to accelerate the economic diversification of our economy. Members learned this lesson during the first week of this Assembly, when De Beers told us they plan to close the Snap Lake diamond mine. It was a timely reminder that all the diamond mines are forecasted to close in the next 10 years, starting at the end of the 19th Assembly. There may be ways to extend the life of each of them, but their best days are probably done.

Mr. Speaker, there is no ready replacement for diamond mining and the benefits it provides. This is a...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We heard quite a bit about Indigenous institutions while we were on the road. There is, I think, some interest in creating Indigenous institutions and some disappointment that there was no detail in the act about what that might entail. What we heard was that there were stakeholders, and in particular, I recall the Gwich'in Tribal Council who said that they had already been consulted on this point. The way that the bill was developed, they are set up for a second round of consultation on the same topic. This is an area where there is a certain amount of duplication and...