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Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 80)

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I just want to say very quickly that the committee  I want to thank the committee for allowing me to sit in on a number of presentations that were conducted over about a twoweek very intense period. So the committee's, in my opinion, done a very thorough job caring for members of the public on solutions to home ownership, and I want to compliment them on their hard work. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 80)

Merci, Monsieur le President. It's been a long week. I'm not going to take up too much time, but I just  I want to encourage all Members of the House to support this. I've heard a couple of concerns raised about this how much is this going to cost. I would actually ask how much would it cost if we don't do this? We need to ensure that our residents have access to food, nutritious food, affordable food, not just now during this pandemic but into the future as well. So what's the cost of not doing this?

The other concern I guess that I've heard raised is that the government is already doing this...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 80)

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister again for his response. I know that our colleagues on the other side have made commitments that we're going to get people back into their homes in time before winter, and so what kind of discretion is there recognizing that people  some people are probably going to be out of their homes for a number of months. What kind of discretion is there to continue these topup payments over a period of time and what sort of criteria would be used to trigger that action? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 80)

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.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 80)

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...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 80)

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...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 80)

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...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 80)

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.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 80)

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...