Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks, Madam Chair. The Yellowknife Airport Revolving Fund, I know I've been after the department for some time to start to spend money at the airport. And I understand they're supposed to be completing their third version, or third different contractor to produce a master plan, by the end of this month apparently. So what can we actually expect to see any of this money expended in the 20222023 for the airport, and for what? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President, that's a tough act to follow.

Another day, another contaminated site mismanaged by our government. This time it is the Mactung exploration property in the former Cantung Mine. Cantung and Mactung are mining properties in the Mackenzie Mountains. The Cantung Mine was a tungsten producer from 1962 until it closed in 2015. The owner, North American Tungsten, went into creditor protection on June 9th, 2015 after we agreed to take on this operation under the Devolution Agreement.

Somehow the federal government let that company put up the Mactung property as part of its...

Okay, thanks, Madam Chair. Is there any possibility that this position could be located in Edzo? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Madam Chair, I don't have anything further but yeah.

Thanks, Madam Chair; yeah, you can give me a promotion.

Yeah, look, I think I understand something of what these folks do and it is important work and we have to make sure that there's a safe workplace for all our employees. But I just wonder how we approach this as a government. You know, do these people only serve and work with Infrastructure staff, or do they serve other government departments as well and how and if not, how do other government departments meet the needs in terms of occupational health and safety for their employees? So yeah, I guess that's a question for the Minister here...

Thanks for that, Madam Chair, and thanks to the Minister for that. What do we get for the hundred thousand bucks? Thank you.

Thanks, Madam Chair. So I'm looking at page 253, and I see that there's a couple of new positions that have been added to this activity, and I'm just hoping that the Minister can tell me what those two positions are and where they're located? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, okay, thanks. Yeah, I look forward to this revenue study although I must say I'm a bit skeptical that charging admission to Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre is really going to generate a lot of revenue. But, you know, maybe I could be surprised.

Well, just as my colleagues from Hay River and Fort Smith have said, you know, we need to invest I think more in heritage, and the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre does actually serve as the Northwest Territories Archives. We have legal obligations to manage the records of the Government of the Northwest Territories in a way that's...

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, clearly, the 2030 Energy Strategy is failing, and it's not we're not going to reach the PanCanadian Framework target; there's no way. So what I was hoping I was going to hear from the Minister is that we're going to reset that or throw it out, quite frankly, and bring in some energy projects that will actually allow us to meet that target. And those it's going to need we require things like hydrogen a workshop that I recently attended that the department put on. We need to find ways to reduce the energy that's consumed in the transportation sector and in the...

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I know the Minister was on this side of the House in the last Assembly and saw lots of different strategies. Once in a while, you might actually see one that actually had some dollar figures attached to it but pretty rare. But, you know, here a significant amount of time, I know even committee time went into reviewing draft of the strategy, not that that was really reflected in the strategy but, you know, we put a lot of time and effort into this and then we just get the same thing in the next budget. Then the Minister talks about how, well, we're reviewing things...