Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks to the Minister for that. Earlier today, I questioned our government's fiscal capacity to take on this $540 million project. Given our borrowing limit, competing infrastructure priorities, what evidence can the Minister provide that our government has the fiscal capacity to initiate the SGP road within the term of the 18th Assembly?

Merci, monsieur le President. It seems that we have a "roads" theme day here today. My message is going to be a little bit different.

This April, the federal government denied GNWT's funding application for its National Trade Corridors Fund towards the construction of the Slave Geological Province Road. This is a proposal to turn the current winter road to the diamond mines into an all-weather corridor and join it with the proposed Grays Bay Road and Port Project to Nunavut's Arctic coast.

Nunavut's proposal for the Grays Bay Road and Port Project was similarly denied, and the Nunavut...

Merci, Monsieur le President. I wish to table the following document, "Tlicho Leadership Supports Tlicho Workers in Potential Layoff," dated May 24, 2018. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I want to thank the Minister for that, and I look forward if he could share some of that information with this side of the House in the future in a regular update.

The Auditor General noted the failure of our government to provide adequate leadership through appropriate authority and procedures to ensure we meet climate change targets. I have noted the need for a Climate Change Act, Financial Management Board consideration of climate change implications in its decisions, and how infrastructure projects should be prioritized in terms of their greenhouse gas reductions. It is...

I want to thank the Minister for that. I don't feel that much more confident that that is actually going to result in greenhouse gas reductions. In my Member's statement, I also referred to the fact that the specific target of greenhouse gas reductions for the industrial sector of 17 per cent was removed from the final version of the Climate Change Strategic Framework, no explanation, no rationale provided. I have raised in this House the need for a multi-stakeholder climate change roundtable with Ministerial leadership to secure industry buy-in. Can the Minister explain why there is no target...

Merci, Monsieur le President. I would like to recognize Mayor Mark Heyck. I had the pleasure and honour to serve with him on city council on my last term and, I believe, his first, so there was some overlap. I want to thank him for his years of service to people in this community. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I wish to table the following document. It's a letter from the Giant Mine oversight board dated April 26, 2018 to the Prime Minister of Canada regarding calls for an apology and compensation related to the operations of Giant Mine and its effects on the Indigenous peoples of the region. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

I would like to thank the Minister for that and the information about how that figure is hidden in a graphic rather than set out clearly in the strategy itself.

I have raised the issue of poor communications around climate change planning and the surprise addition of the specific and large reductions to greenhouse gas emissions attributed to Taltson expansion. We don't even know what the carbon pricing system is going to be, or how that fits into our climate change initiatives either. Can the Minister tell the public and Regular MLAs whether the Energy Strategy and Climate Change Strategic...

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for the Minister of Infrastructure, who also chairs the Cabinet Committee on Energy and Climate Change. In my Member's statement, I noted how Cabinet's approach to meeting our climate change obligations under the Pan-Canadian Framework has little or no hope for success. Can the Minister provide any justification for how the expansion of the Taltson system will lead to the predicted 44 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, when there is no funding for the project and no buyers for that power? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Merci, Monsieur le President. On May 1st, Cabinet released the Energy Strategy and Climate Change Strategic Framework. What's still missing for a complete package on climate change is a firm proposal and legislative changes for carbon pricing.

Today, I'm calling out Cabinet on its efforts on climate change. I strongly urge the federal government to reject the climate change plan, as it falls far short of any likelihood of successfully reaching the Pan-Canadian Framework obligation of a 30 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by the year 2030. These are strong words...