Kevin O'Reilly

Merci, Monsieur le President. I've raised this government's faulty Project Assessment Policy many times as an MLA, and here I go again. Cabinet approved the Project Assessment Policy on April 13th, 2017. The Project Assessment Policy requires "any technical advice and evidence provided to boards by their respective staff is in line with legislation, Cabinet direction and ministerial policies established under this policy."

This policy grants Cabinet immense power and reads like a way of muzzling our scientists and preventing presentation of evidence that may not be consistent with Cabinet's way...

Okay, thanks. So maybe I'll just ask a simple question. Is the work done? Thank you.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I was over at Avens recently and, boy, there's a lot of stuff happening over there. I'm just wondering is there - what are the reasons for the delay? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Okay. All right. So is this money for the access road off the highway to the community? Thank you.

Yeah, okay thanks. If I wasn't confused before, now I am. But look, what we're being asked to do then is approve a whole bunch of carryovers which means we're not getting money out the door, and I don't know why, but if the Minister wants to talk about that, that's fine. But we're not getting money out the door, we're being asked to approve more money that's probably not going to get out the door even this summer, so. And I think it's probably going to exceed this cap.

What's the purpose of having a cap when we're going to go over it again and again and again? So I'm going to have a lot of...

Yeah, okay, I guess this is above my pay grade or something where - is this like some kind of holdback or something in case something goes wrong, and why are we being asked to put up money, $4.2 million, wouldn't it be the contractor that should have to do this? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks. Yeah, this is really murky. So I think I'm going to move on because I'm not really getting answers here. But if this supplementary appropriation is approved, what's the total capital funding then that the Legislative Assembly's authorized for 20232024? Thank you.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. So there's a line item here, Tlicho AllSeason Road, Whati, $4.2 million. You know, I thought the road opened in November last year. What's this money for if the road's already opened and people are driving on it? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks. So I think I heard $2.7 million. That doesn't seem to jive with the information we have available to us, but yeah, is that information publicly available somewhere? Thank you.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. Look, I really love the North Arm Park; we often stop there. We've actually camped there once. But there's about five or six different line items in here for different parts of this park. You know, gatehouse living quarters, the outhouse dump station, electrical project. What is going on with this? There's even more on the next - sorry, even on the second page for a playground. What's going on with the whole thing? Like, why is this continually being carried over and what's going on? Thanks, Madam Chair.