Kevin O'Reilly

Okay, thanks. Yeah, fully in agreement. I've been pushing and trying to hope for the last eight years that something would be done because the archives is overflowing. I've been for at least a couple of tours there. The stuff is not in any kind of climate-controlled facility. Is this for the archives building itself, or is this the offsite storage? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair, for stopping the time on me. Okay, well, I'll offer a few comments, then.

So I guess I want to start with page 2, the introduction and, you know, I continue to point out that the biggest part of our capital budget is highways and roads at 26 percent. Housing is 4 percent. When our government continues to spend, you know, six times as much on highways and roads as we spend on housing and I understand that this is probably not doesn't include some federal money and so on, but this is money that we're spending, and when our government continues to spend six times as much on...

Yeah, thanks. I would appreciate the update. Look, I get that this is kind of the backbone thing, but when the project was sold, it was that people were going to get faster, cheaper internet in their homes, and I don't think that that's actually happened in some of the communities. So anything we can do to help make that happen, great. Because it I don't think it's really panned out the way that it was sold, so. And I'll just leave it at that. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Madam la Presidente. Committee wishes to consider Tabled Document 97319(2) Capital Estimates 20242025 and Tabled Document 97419(2) Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 20232024. Mahsi.

Okay, thanks. I guess maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but has that party been identified, and are we facilitating that in any way? Thanks.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. I asked for that study last week. I'm still waiting. But the engagement to date done by the department has been done very selectively with the mining industry with secret meetings where information is shared internally and not made available to other interests. So can the Minister tell us what, if any, public or industry engagement is going to take place from now until a new Assembly is elected on November the 14th? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, but this is part of the overall P3 approach on this thing. So NorthwesTel's building the thing for us or something and going to operate it for 30 years or whatever, and then we're left with it afterwards, is that how this works? And maybe I'm, you know but I'll yeah, I'd like to hear what the Minister has to say. Thanks.

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment. There are no new mining regulations, so we're stuck with what the federal government gave us for mining, as bad as that was. The Mineral Resources Act was passed four years ago that gave the Minister extraordinary new powers, but not much of anything has been completed or implemented. Can the Minister tell us the status and the development of the mining regulations? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks. If I remember correctly, though, I think I've seen this now over two or three different capital budgets. Has this work actually started and when is it going to finish? Thanks.

Yeah, okay. I don't want to go any further on this, but I'm probably going to have some questions tomorrow in the House about this afteraction review because I think there's an RFP about it right now. Thank you.