Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I want to acknowledge the additional information that we did receive from the Minister of Justice on enforcement, and we had a discussion around this in the clausebyclause review. It does appear that our Cabinet colleagues and their staff have been doing some work to try to clarify the issues around enforcement, but obviously there's still a lot of confusion out there, and that's why I think this is a good idea and I will support it. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Yes, I support this motion. I have been asking for this kind of information for over a year from our Cabinet colleagues. I raised it during business plans, and we still do not have anything. The effect of this motion is to ask that that plan be developed and given back to the standing committees. Look, I recognize that this is something new and that it's evolving, but, if you do not even have a game plan, how are we going to do it? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for the Minister responsible for the Northwest Territories Power Corporation.

The Executive's 2030 Energy Strategy and a Climate Change Strategic Framework relies heavily upon greenhouse gas reductions, supposedly resulting from a major expansion of the Taltson hydro-electric system.

Could the Minister describe the phases of the Taltson hydro-electric expansion set out in the 2030 Energy Strategy, including the following:

Identify the timeframes of construction, how each phase of construction will be financed, and to whom will the energy be sold;

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I look forward to the briefing and getting the letter tabled so that we can tell the public what is going on. Our government apparently participated with federal government experts to prepare some sort of a study on the impacts of carbon pricing on the Northwest Territories. Can the Minister tell us whether that study has been completed and, if so, when it will be publicly released?

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for the Minister of Finance on the issue of carbon pricing. I would like to start with something simple. The federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada wrote to all her provincial and territorial counterparts on December 20, 2017. She requested a response by March 30, 2018 on whether each jurisdiction would implement its own carbon pricing scheme or rely on the federal government. Last time I asked the Minister of Finance, in April, we still had not responded, so can the Minister tell us and the general public if he has written a...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Yes, I appreciate the commitment of the Minister to provide the information about our procurement capacity, given the changes that have happened within the Department of Infrastructure over the last couple of years. I guess I also want to thank the Minister and his staff. We only had a briefing on these two supplementary appropriation bills this morning, and we got an email about two hours ago with seven briefing notes attached to it, with additional information that we requested, and I am concerned about the amount of time that we be had to actually look at that information...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that information from the Minister. Is any of this money being used to replant areas that were already planted once after forests were harvested? If so, doesn't that point to the need to improve our reforestation regulation? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I would like to thank the MLA for Yellowknife North for bringing forward this motion. I strongly support it. This issue about smoking in vehicles while children are present, that is something that was raised when I was Yellowknife city council, and we finally took steps to restrict and eventually ban smoking in public places, but it was something that we couldn't address ourselves. I know this from first-hand. My parents smoked in the vehicle when I was there. They just did not know any better. Eventually we got them to quit, though, and I am thankful for that. So...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I thank the Minister for that commitment. I think this is a good thing, and I do support the $1,000,000 that is going into the housing retrofits, and that is the kind of investment in our low carbon economy that I can support. There is supposed to be increased funding for the Arctic Energy Alliance. I have been pleading with Cabinet for the last three years to increase the funding for the Arctic Energy Alliance, so finally, we're going to get some more money in there.

I would like to know from the Minister whether any of that funding is going to be dedicated to something...

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I want to thank the Minister for that. I am a bit surprised that he is not a little bit more on top of this as the lead Minister for the project, especially after I gave him a heads-up about what I was going to talk about today.

In my Member's statement, I raised this April 30th letter, and I believe it casts a long and dark shadow of interference with procedural fairness and legal uncertainty over any decision on the Tlicho all-season road, the GNWT's role in future EAs, and protection of the threatened boreal caribou. What lessons, if any, have the Minister and his Cabinet...