Kevin O'Reilly

I want to thank the Premier for clarifying that, and I'll stand down a little bit, myself. I guess I had misinterpreted that to say that the letters have actually been finalized. I understand that they are in draft form. Can the Premier confirm when she intends to share these letters with the appropriate standing committees?

Merci, Mr. Speaker, and I'm sorry I didn't give the Premier a head's up, but it's on the list for today. I'm wondering if the Premier can tell us whether mandate letters have been prepared for each of the Ministers? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

I want to thank the Premier for that. I agree that it is time to review the mandate. Probably, you need to collectively look at the priorities we developed. I want to say that GNWT's economic assistance programs to small businesses have been very slow and uneven. I am going to have a lot more to say about that, but I want to ask the Premier about overall planning for economic recovery. We have had an initial presentation without specifics, but can the Premier tell us now how the views of Regular MLAs are going to be incorporated, and when does she anticipate this effort really starting to take...

Thanks, Madam Chair. There was a review of Arctic Energy Alliance. It's adjusted some realigning of some of their work, and I am just wondering how we are making out with that. There is a lot of additional funding that is coming from the federal government that is going into Arctic Energy Alliance. How is that work progressing, and have they realigned their programs according to the evaluation that was carried out? What's happening? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, monsieur le President. My questions are for the Premier, who is coordinating the GNWT's pandemic planning and recovery. My statement earlier today reflected on some of the lessons learned to date. I recognize that we are still in the midst of the pandemic, but we must have learned some lessons and best practices by now. Has the Premier begun to plan for a thorough and public review of GNWT's pandemic planning and response, and what sorts of specific measures or steps can we expect to see? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Thanks for the explanation. I was aware of that. Just, there's this line item here, "large-scale commercial and industrial." There seems to be maybe a word missing, but I had understood that there was going to be some kind of grant or program to big emitters. I'm just wondering: is this it? Last year, we spent $2.5 million on this, and I guess I am trying to understand what we got for it and some description of what the money is actually for and how it's rolled out, how do people access it, and so on. If they have to provide that later, that's fine. I just want some...

Thanks, Madam Chair. I guess I would like to be kept in the loop. If the Minister could commit to providing an update as to whether that work goes ahead or not, I would appreciate that. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I'm looking at page 236, the contributions, Low Carbon Economy Leadership Fund. There was an amount for last year for active forestry carbon sequestration, $414,000. What did we actually get for that money? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I just wanted to follow up on some of the comments made by my colleague from Yellowknife Centre. I think I heard the deputy minister say that the Mackenzie Valley Highway is going to take another four years in environmental assessment before shovels can hit the ground again. That project has been in environmental assessment since 2013. 2013! Another four years, that means it will have been in environmental assessment for 11 years. Why is it in environmental assessment for 11 years? Because GNWT submitted a project that was ill-defined and has had to be redefined about five...

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Premier for that, and I look forward to getting these letters, seeing them in draft form. It's customary for these in the last Assembly and in the federal government, they make the letters public, and I assume that the Premier is going to do the same thing. The reason why I'm so interested in these letters is that the mandate, the priorities we develop, don't actually cover a lot of what some of the Ministers may have to do. Can the Premier tell us whether these letters contain work for the Ministers to do that might be outside of the actual...