Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I appreciate that because it's been a long time since there's been any effort to actually lay that out in a public fashion, so. And if the Minister can do it before the end of the week, even better but and if she can't do it, I don't think it should wait until the end of May. So can I get an assurance from the Minister that she's not going to wait until May to make this information public. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Can someone tell me what the opening supplement the supplementary reserve was for the infrastructure side in 20222023. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. So, again, I guess I'm just kind of interested in how much additional funding the department has secured for the MRA implementation royalty work over the last few years. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I'm not fearful; I just want the information to be made public. I've seen the information the Minister's provided in confidence. I do not understand or accept that it has to be kept confidential. We've got a budgeted amount here for this work. So I guess what and a better understanding how much has been spent, I don't see any reason why that can't be made public. So I want the assurance of the Minister that in her fuller response that she'll be able to, say, perhaps table that in the House. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. I think someone should speak to this.

So I think what happened was the bill had recommended that the Ombud have the ability to review statutory officers' operations in terms of fairness and so on and some of the statutory officers felt that that was not appropriate. So and it wasn't clear where some jurisdiction began, some jurisdiction ended. So I think in lieu of trying to get a better understanding of all of that, that's why this recommendation was put forward to kind of do a review of the jurisdiction of each of the statutory officers that the Board of Management...

Thanks, Madam Chair. So if I'm looking at the descriptions right, we're cutting funding in the economic diversification and business support part of ITI and giving it over to minerals and petroleum resources. So I can I get an explanation here as to why that is happening? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. My colleague from Yellowknife North asked some of my questions, although and I look, I am in favour of moving to map staking, but I've got a lot of issues and concerns if the fees aren't raised to appropriate levels and companies are allowed to go in and speculate and tie up a whole bunch of land without actually having to do anything. That's just not a good place to be. But I'd like to know from the Minister how much have we actually spent on this MARS thing so far and what's the total budget for it. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks, Mr. Chair. So I was trying to quickly refresh my memory on the report, and I confess I don't think I was here when it was read into the record. But I assume that this special committee is going to be a joint one between Regular MLAs and Cabinet? But I don't really see that kind of spelled out anywhere in here. Maybe somebody who's on the committee or the chair might be able to help me understand that. I assume, maybe I'm just reading too much into this, but are Regular MLAs going to be part of this or is this just like a Cabinet committee, or what's going on here? Thanks...

Merci, Monsieur le President. And, of course, I didn't give the Minister a heads up so I'm springing this on her, probably playing a little bit of this just off the cuff. But, you know, some of the recommendations in this report are aimed, of course, at one of my favorite agencies, the Canadian RadioTelevision Telecommunications Commission. And, you know, recommendation 2.31, the CRTC should routinely collect and verify data from telecommunication service providers about connectivity quality. Like, I would have thought that that's something you would just normally do.

In any event, Mr. Speaker...

Thanks, Madam Chair. So I guess, again I'll ask, is any of this money going towards Edehzhie and permanent protection? We got some, you know, interim land withdrawal covering it. Is this going to help get this area permanently protected in some way? Thanks, Madam Chair.