Kevin O'Reilly

Merci, Monsieur le President. I wish to acknowledge one of the Pages in the House today, Riley Hans. She is a student at Ecole Sir John Franklin High School.

I want to thank you for filling my water glass, as well as running notes around for everybody.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Great, okay. I look forward to getting that information, and I just assume that you folks are all working together, so you are going to get it from your colleague. Now that we have dealt with what happened, how are we going to prevent this from happening again in the future? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Look, I am a taxpayer here in Yellowknife. We receive an interim notice, I think, pretty early in the calendar year, and then we get a final notice usually around June, if my memory serves me correctly. I am just wondering: when did MACA get the notice of taxation, and why did it take from the time of the notice until now before the supplementary appropriation came forward? Is this something that could have or should have been dealt with in the last Assembly? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair, and I want to thank the Minister for that response. I guess I have a few comments I want to offer. I want to echo some of the frustration of my colleagues here this evening. Not a lot of this is actually new. The request, though, certainly for a $135-million increase in short-term borrowing is something new, and it comes at a difficult time, at the beginning of this Assembly. I have asked questions in the last Assembly about the deficit for the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services authority. If you look at their annual report, the latest one that is available...

Thanks, Madam Chair. Can someone tell me: when did we get a tax assessment that was from the City of Yellowknife for the Stanton Hospital? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I think I'd like to start by asking, I think I heard there were some cash-flow issues with regard to federal funding for the large infrastructure projects. I had understood in the budget for 2018, or the current O and M budget, that we had already hired, I think it was, three extra staff at the Department of Infrastructure to help with better reporting and getting money out of the feds for these projects. Am I hearing that that's not working? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I'm just wondering if I can get an explanation as to how the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs would miss that the Stanton Hospital would come online and didn't budget for this. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Great. Thanks. That is what I had suspected and appreciate the response from our witnesses. This will be an ongoing cost into the future. The total supplementary appropriation, I think, is for $4.5 million, essentially. The Minister said $3.5 million is for the City of Yellowknife. What is the other $1 million for [microphone turned off]?

I want to thank the Minister for that response. Sorry, I'm going to have to go a little bit off-script here, because I think I heard the Minister say that the Tobacco and Vapour Products Control Act is not going to prohibit flavoured vaping products from being sold. Section 6.1(1) says that: "No person shall sell a flavoured tobacco product at retail." In any event, does this section actually prohibit the sale of flavoured vaping products, or not? Is that what this act and this section are going to do?

Merci, Monsieur le President. The last Assembly passed Bill 41, Tobacco and Vapour Products Control Act. This bill will prohibit the sale of flavoured vaping products that have been in the news as of late. As I understand, the act has not yet been brought into force. My questions are for the Minister of Health and Social Services. Can the Minister explain what steps are being taken to bring this legislation into force to protect the youth of the Northwest Territories? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.