Kevin O'Reilly

Merci, Monsieur le President. Sometimes I don't say enough good things about my colleagues across the floor. So I want to congratulate the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment for increasing income assistance for some of our residents in the floodimpacted communities. I think that was a really good move on the part of his department. But I'd like to know which communities are receiving the topup. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Merci, Monsieur le President. Thanks to the Minister for that. I think she needs to talk to her staff about getting the wholeofgovernment position correct.

But, Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Minister was trying to compare the Business Advisory Council to this Chamber of Mines working group. And the Business Advisory Council has a public terms of reference. It's multistakeholder. There's a web page that the department keeps where the correspondence and recommendations from the council are publicly available. And I'm just wondering if the Minister can make a commitment to ensure that the  or post...

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment. I'd like to follow up on questions I had yesterday about the GNWTChamber of Mines COVID19 recovery working group.

Mr. Speaker, I raised the issue of how these notes from these meetings seem to show that our government is helping the Chamber of Mines draft correspondence, and I want to cite a couple of examples.

On page 14 of the document I tabled a couple of days ago, this is in a June 23rd meeting, this is a direct quote, Mr. Speaker, "GNWT is willing to assist in the editing of the letter from...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move that the chair rise and report progress.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So, yeah, I've raised this issue on the floor of the House several times now about the inability of even Yellowknife residents to get home insurance. And I'll give another example. I said  charted this out before. We had home insurance with Aviva. We had some roof work done. Told the company about it. All of a sudden, they started to ask questions about our heating source. We've had a wood pellet boiler for five years. They decided to cut us off, cancel our policy because they didn't want to insure us anymore. So  and I've had similar complaints from other residents in my...

Merci, Monsieur le President. Committee wishes to consider Committee Report 1519(2), Committee Report 1619(2), Minister's Statement 16119(2), Tabled Document 41319(2), and Mr. Chair, we'd like to consider the last two items together as one matter. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. WHEREAS this 19th Assembly agreed in its priorities to increase food security through locally produced, harvested, and affordable food;

WHEREAS the Northwest Territories has the second highest level of food security in Canada as defined by Statistics Canada;

WHEREAS in a 2018 survey of Northwest Territories residents, 23 percent were worried about not having enough food money for food and in some communities, it was greater than 50 percent;

AND WHEREAS the Northwest Territories' food system is extremely fragile and dependent on global markets, which the COVID19...

Merci, Monsieur le President. Thanks very much to the Minister for that forwardlooking work by his department. I'm just wondering, were these payments like onetime payments or are they going to be ongoing in some way? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that very helpful and long answer. And I look forward to a much greater transparency on these meetings. But, you know, Mr. Speaker, if these meetings were actually happening in almost any other jurisdiction in Canada, they would be regulated under lobbyists registration or lobbyists legislation. Mr. Speaker, we are one of two jurisdictions in Canada that does not have lobbyist legislation. And I think that's increasingly important, especially in the postevolution world where we have responsibilities for billions of dollars of...

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for confirming that assistance is provided in drafting letters by the Chamber of Mines.

There's another set of minutes from July the 15th, and I want to read a direct quote, Mr. Speaker: "GNWT will discuss interim land withdrawals and how they can be addressed to facilitate mining activities."

Mr. Speaker, this would appear  and this is GNWT  this is not ITI. It appears to be a wholeofgovernment approach. I'd like the Minister to explain how this GNWT work on allowing mining activities and land withdrawals is consistent with our...