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Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yes, thank you. Any information that can be provided I would appreciate it. I want to just talk about the Great Bear River Bridge planning. I remember bidding on this project in 2018, and I'm sitting here now, four years later, and it's not progressing very much. I know that there has been work done but I'm hearing from the communities that the engagement has not been very great and that they're concerned that there's going to be a loss of this money and work outside of the territory. Can the Minister or the department speak a little bit more about what this entails under the planning. Thank...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you. I will follow up to get the amount of that work, I guess, since nobody seems to have that number right now.

My next question then is around oh jeez, where did it go I'm losing my mind here. The community access road improvements. Thank you.

So under the community access plan, that is my understanding that money is directly into the communities themselves to work on their own projects, which is always a great thing in my opinion. Can the Minister or the department speak more to what projects this entails and whether or not they're going to put more money into that program? Thank you...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I'd like to keep on the conversation about roads and can the Minister or the department speak to what is the reconstruction work on the Inuvik to Tuk Highway, and how much is that going to cost this year? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you for that. Sorry, I just okay, maybe I can rephrase. When do we expect to hear a decision on whether or not the additional funding has been awarded for that project? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And the Minister knows I'm a really big fan of the iterative process. So I'm glad to hear that, you know, we are looking at this as something that we are going to adapt and change as we get more feedback from the users of the system.

My last question I think just has to speak around Indigenous ownership. I believe there's been some information in the media around, you know, people sort of being window dressing as they take part in ceremonies and such but I think it's really important to clarify the record that the rare earth mine that is operating in the Northwest...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm super glad to hear the Minister speak about a coordinated approach and sort of being proactive with the players in the region given that I can't think of how many times I've heard oh, if we just knew that was going on, we would have jumped on board. So great to hear that the Minister's coordinating that.

Given that our dependence in the next while is going to be on metal mining as the diamond mines sunset, can the Minister speak to what is being done and how the GNWT is supporting the expansion or exploration for new metal mines? I can't stress enough...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, Bill 48, Arbitration Act. Bill 48 is based on the Uniform Arbitration Act of 2016, referred to as the Model Act in this report. The Model Act was prepared by the Uniform Law Conference of Canada, an organization promoting uniformity of legislation in Canada.

The goal of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada is that jurisdictions adopt uniform or model acts to harmonize laws across the country through various forms of enactment, with changes related to drafting style with substantially the same wording, with modifications, or in part. The perception is that...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I'm hoping that one day I get to walk across that bridge while I can still walk.

My next question is around deferred maintenance. So when we look at these amounts here, is this to actually bring down our costs of deferred maintenance as in to start tackling the overall amounts, or is this just sort of a keeping up with the BandAid solutions? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't think that my question was answered there about what projects those are. Like, maybe I guess the better way to ask is which communities are those projects in and how much is that? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you. So from listening to that I hear that we don't have like, or I didn't hear an amount; how much money was that? Thank you.