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Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. It's my understanding that there's quite a bit of unallocated money remaining from the federal Low Carbon Economy Leadership Fund but that there's some conditions that prevent its use to fund trials.

Can the Minister tell us how much money is left to be allocated and whether her department will ask the federal government to permit use of these funds for trials of biofuels? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I would hope that the Minister would be a little more flexible there. Look, you can't transplant what is being done here to regional centres but there's lots of lessons learned, and so I guess the Minister's answer is that integrated service delivery's going to subsume what's happening with integrated case management and somehow that's going to roll out across the Northwest Territories? Is that what I'm hearing the Minister say? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Merci, Monsieur le President. I rise to acknowledge the passing of Eva Henderson at 96. Eva came here in 1974 with her husband and family. A registered nurse, she worked at Stanton Hospital and helped establish Yellowknife home care services. She was the founding and lifetime member of the Northwest Territories Nursing Association. In later years, she ran a bed and breakfast with husband Eric. Eva's vivacious nature and ready smile will be missed, while her influence will be felt for years to come. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks for that, Madam Chair. And thanks to the Minister and his staff. Can we get that split out somehow in next year's main estimates? Like, we're spending $6 million on community justice and it's like two lines in the program detail. Community justice is a big lump sum of $5.6 million. Protection against family violence is 500 come on. Can we get some more program detail, a better breakdown next year? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Okay, thanks. And so moving forward in this set of main estimates, there's a reduction that was made, and now that I have the Minister's opening remarks in front of me I see basically that there was some forced growth in the departmental budget. There's some initiatives. There's something called other adjustments. There was reductions in travel and sunsets.

So out of those, the five bulleted items here on the Minister's opening remarks, where does this reduction to the OROGO budget actually fit in in these bulleted categories? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks, Madam Chair. I think this is where the integrated case management program is found, but there's no line item; there's no nothing. It's hard to know what expenditures there are on the program. Can I get some detail about that and whether the budget is increasing, decreasing? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks for that. Yeah, I'm looking at this. It's clearly a reduction. That's not the way it's classified, though, by the Financial Management Board. I believe this is classified as an FMB approved adjustment. Can the Minister confirm that, yes or no? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks, Madam Chair. And not knowing enough about the system and how it works and whether statistics are tracked or not, I'm happy to get whatever the Minister can provide and then we'll go from there. Thanks.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks, Madam Chair. No, I appreciate the Minister's commitment to make that information public, and I'm one of the Members that actually pushed for a rationalization of resources here because there's just very little, if any, interest whatsoever in oil and gas resources in the Northwest Territories. So why continue to spend money on managing them when there's no activity taking place. So I understand and pushed for that work to be done.

So when the money is cut, where does it go? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 99)

Thanks, Madam Chair. I move that committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Department of Infrastructure at this time. Thank you, Madam Chair.