Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks for that. There's just a couple of smaller changes on page 42 under grants.

The early childhood program grants going up $35,000 while the early childhood scholarships are going down by $15,000. Normally we don't really see a lot of movement in these sections. So is there an explanation there? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. So maybe I'll just start with the occupational health and safety position.

Look, I love Hay River, but why is the position located in Hay River? Are there existing occupational health and safety positions throughout Department of Infrastructure in all the other regions? Why Hay River here? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. And I know that we had a supplementary appropriation, a couple of them tabled earlier today. One contains some information about the new federal agreements so I'm not going to ask any questions about that here because I think they're more appropriate for the SUP. But I do have a few questions about what's forced in the main estimates.

On page 41, it's about a hundred thousand dollar increase in purchased services, and can someone explain to me what's going on there? Thank you.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. We're just not going to make the target at this rate. There's no way. It's impossible for us to make the target especially when we're stuck in this strategy. And, you know, the federal government has to be watching this, and should be watching this, the money that they're giving us, because part of the reason we you know, the last Cabinet, it took a lot for them to actually sign on to the PanCanadian Framework in the first place. And the only reason they did that was because they said that if we're going to reach that target, you got to give us some money. So the...

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, just my disappointment with not seeing any changes here about this after developing the art strategy.

Can the Minister tell me if there's any increases in funding for the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in here? Thank you.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I look forward to a supplementary appropriation to support Arctic Energy Alliance and the good programs that it offers.

But I want to switch gears and move to probably some higher level questions around energy and strategic initiatives. I raised this with the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources and was told that this was something that he wasn't really responsible for.

So when I look at the GNWT energy initiatives report for 2021 and the forecasts of greenhouse gas reductions, by the year 2025 we will have only reached 20 percent of the target that was set...

Thanks, Madam Chair. So on September 17th, 2021, the new arts strategy was released, and it doesn't look like there's any there is no changes to any of the contributions on page 37. So when might we expect to see some changes in, you know, even culture, heritage and languages budget that reflects the new arts strategy? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. On page 248, the large scale commercial and industrial under the Low Carbon Leadership Economy Fund, I think that's supposed to be whatever, why is that bouncing around like a yoyo? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks for that. Yeah, when this was being discussed in the last Assembly, it was very interesting because all of the Yellowknife all the Regular Yellowknife MLAs voted against establishing a Yellowknife Airport Revolving Fund because we could never get any commitment for accountability, representation on these committees. There was no accountability. Nothing. And then, you know, to have now it's being reestablished, that's great. But a little bit of more input from this side of the House would be appreciated. The last bunch were appointed by the deputy minister rather than the Minister. So...

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister again for her response.

The Cantung and Mactung saga is another example of postdevolution mismanagement of our resources. Can the Minister explain what lessons have been learned from our mismanagement of the Cantung and Mactung properties? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.