Katrina Nokleby

Great Slave

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of MACA as the Minister responsible for the Emergency Management Office. Under the emergency management office, can the Minister please explain how the communications tree or matrix works during an emergency? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess is there and I apologize if that has been asked before, but is there the federal funding around as we progress through, like, disaster mitigation and adaptation, I know that often that funding resides with the Department of Infrastructure to go for, or it can be project based I guess from communities themselves. I'm just wondering is there any talk in with the feds that there is going to be more money coming for that kind of work? Like, I know a lot of our infrastructure I think of Hay River, for example, having lots of issues I hear currently with some...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it's concerning to me that that wasn't the first question asked by this Minister when this incident occurred. So does the Minister then confirm that those were the guns that were used in the incident in weekend? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

I appreciate that. Thank you, Madam Chair. And I just want to actually reiterate the question I was asking. I don't have anything further after that. It's just what would be the barriers I'll frame it better.

What would be the barriers to the options I suggested around changing the way the funding is set up? So is there a specific reason, say, from where the money is coming from federally that we couldn't go to more of a model where it's small community/regional centre/Yellowknife? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thanks to our great research staff, I have a very wonderful chart in front of me that shows that the amount of funding to municipal governments for environmental services, that the gap is actually will increase this year coming up.

I'm just curious to know what the department's plan is to deal with the environmental liabilities in our communities. I'm aware of a few projects, without naming those communities, that, you know, there is some dispute over whether the GNWT should be responsible for cleaning them up. Some predate the existence of the GNWT so that becomes a...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Lands.

The NWT rumor mill was flying this weekend as the alarming events in Fort Smith unfolded, and my thoughts are with everyone there as they continue to cope with this tragedy. Can the Minister explain how, according to this rumor mill, guns from the Department of Lands ended up in the hands of the young perpetrator? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

It was not a yes or no question. I think you were nodding yes to the earlier part so and I see you nodding now. So I appreciate that.

Again, I look at some of this, and I see funding, Get Active NWT, not very much money. Is there a reason that we have to have these all sort of separated out like this? I'm not advocating for less detail than people want but if there's one pot and there's one application and there's one it seems like maybe we could cut down on some of this administrative stuff because they're perhaps they all kind of are with the same goal. Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I'm glad to hear that there is some sort of a collaboration or conversation happening there. I think this is a good time to maybe put forth, again, the idea of a public safety department versus having it piecemeal across several different departments given that we are now living in a new world, as everyone likes to say, our new normal of continuing pandemics, greater climate change emergencies, etcetera. We have heard other colleagues speak to the mystery of why Lands and MACA are two different departments and such and so perhaps maybe an evolution of one of those...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'll try again; I'm actually looking for details on that collaboration in training programs, schedules, you know, meeting appointments, anything that could be provided to the Regular Members as to actually what is going on in that conversation with the Red Cross.

Can the Minister explain why at the beginning of the flooding disaster last year, it took so long for the GNWT to draw on the resources of the Red Cross? It's my understanding that it took Indigenous leadership in the region to start that ball rolling. What is the Minister doing to ensure that if we...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I appreciate that commitment from the Minister. I would like to see those organizations. I've spoke often about how I think NGOs do better with their money than maybe some of the departments do. So I this is an area where I hope that when we come back in a year that we are going to see more money here.

And I guess then, though, the question is, before I ask you for more money for it, is this fund usually fully subscribed? Is it one that is undersubscribed? Oversubscribed? Do we add more money as needed from other areas, or do we cap it? Thank you.