Katrina Nokleby

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My question is about the securities and project assessment line item on page 318. I notice that the actuals were a lot larger for 2019-2020. I am just wondering if that is like the sunsetting or finishing of a project, like maybe Cameron Hills or something like that. Could the department confirm? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Not to wade into a super controversial area right now, but could the Minister or the department explain: do they anticipate an escalation in this situation? I'm starting to see in social media, et cetera, where some of the Indigenous organizations and others are looking to advocate on behalf of their members for some of these scenarios. I'm just concerned about whether we are going to see this get a little bit hairier over the next while. Maybe not a budget question, but perhaps the Minister can shed some light on that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think the Minister said that it was within his own department that those people were reallocated, but is there any move to move some of these other positions out of headquarters or to get more positions into regional offices? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm just wondering if the department can tell us around equity leases, for those that are paid and are in good standing, when are they going to be able to get the title? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If the Chair will indulge me just for a second, I'd like to just ask about the revenue summary, if that's okay? I know we did agree to skip the opening ones. I just wanted to know how accurate, and you might want to start the clock for me, too. How accurate is that estimation for the quarry revenues? I do understand that the Minister of Finance has indicated that you're not sort of zeroing out your budgets and such. I'm wondering with the downturn, if we're not going to see as much construction projects this year, is it really realistic that we're going to bring in $100...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. February is Black History Month in Canada and throughout the world. Here in the North, we have a thriving Black community that, in June, organized a rally to protest racism against Black people. This rally was organized to coincide with a growing international movement in protest of rising incidents of violent acts against people of colour.

From this, a group was formed called the Black Advocacy Coalition up North, or BACupNorth, with the goal of providing community support to Black Northerners. Its mission is to end racism and dismantle barriers to equity in law...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Does this fund apply to all of the 33 communities, or does it have a tax base, regional-centre-type distribution? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to get a bit more information on page 348, the water and sewer services funding. Could the department explain: is that for operations and maintenance of water and sewer services, or are there any new projects or any capital that ends up out of this budget? Thank you.

Thank you for that explanation. I think that the hiring of relief staff, I'm not really sure how much you need to analyze the fact that you need relief staff and you need to have other management requirements that are not currently being met, so I'm not really sure that another study on what is lacking, it's my understanding the department actually has quite a good understanding of what's missing in this department, from a staffing requirement. Has the department looked at potentially moving Med Response out of 911, since there seems to be a lack of communication or working together there...

I don't have another question, but I am just going to take a moment to plug for the seniors. I don't think that we should do the income testing because I think they contribute in so many other ways, and we do want them to stay. As one pointed out to me, we get $37,000 a year for them, so I will just leave it at that. Thank you.