Kevin O'Reilly

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

The MactungCantung properties are 140 kilometres away from each other by air, 700 kilometres by road. It's unlikely that some buyer's going to take these on as some sort of viable mining operation without significant concessions and subsidies.

Can the minister explain why GNWT's attempting to sell these properties together and whether we will offer further concessions and subsidies? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. Look, the airfield fire truck, that's all great, but I and important for safety, but I'm thinking of the convenience of travellers. Now that we're going to reopen for outofterritory visitors, tourism's going to get going again. There's traditionally been problems with the lineups at the airport. The waiting areas aren't big enough. Is any of that sort of passengerconvenience stuff going to get addressed in the near future through the revolving fund? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism, and Investment, who seems to have the lead on the management of the Cantung and Mactung properties.

When I look at the list of creditors, I see that GNWT's owed $5.528 million from this operation. Can the Minister tell us how much North American Tungsten actually owes us, for what, and when we expect to recover that money? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Okay, yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. We'll I guess we'll have a discussion about that.

But I think that's all the questions I have on this section. I'm just going to look at my notes. Thanks, Madam Chair. That's it.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Given that I don't think there's anybody else on your list, I move that the chair rise and report progress.

Okay, thanks. I think I'm going to have ask some questions of the Minister of Finance, then, when we get to that department about how our government approaches the issue of occupational health and safety across the whole government because, you know, with different departments are having these occupational health and safety officers of different, they only serve one department, and they it's kind of doesn't seem like there's a coordinated approach, so I'll just leave it at that. I'll have questions then for the Minister of Finance when we get there.

But on the highway transportation officer...

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...