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Committee Motion 377-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act – Government Response to Recommendations, Carried
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 148)

Yeah, no, thanks. I think there's also something around the cycle that we use for road and culvert inspection or replacement. There was some changes there. Could the Minister speak to that as well? Thank you.

Member’s Statement 1447-19(2): Northern Resident Travel Deduction
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 148)

Merci, Monsieur le President. Confusion continues to reign for northern taxpayers despite the Canada Revenue Agency having finally published lowest airfare rates for the Northern Resident Travel Deduction. The deduction is set by regulation and has been in place since 1987 with continuous problems ever since.

I've been raising this issue for years in this House, trying to get successive territorial finance ministers, to step up and work with the other territorial finance ministers to slay this dragon.

After a CBC story about how Northerners were being audited three times as much as our southern...

Committee Motion 377-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act – Government Response to Recommendations, Carried
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 148)

Thanks. How much of that's carried over? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Committee Motion 377-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act – Government Response to Recommendations, Carried
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 148)

Okay. Yeah, that's kind of not what my notes show but we're doing the same number, that's great. If we're not, I guess I'd like to understand why. Maybe I'll just ask if the Minister could double check. Thanks.

Committee Motion 378-19(2): Tabled Document 813-19(2): 2023-2024 Main Estimates – Infrastructure – Deferral of Department (page 251), Carried
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 148)

Merci, Madam la Presidente. I thought we'd never get here. I move that this committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Department of Infrastructure at this time. Mahsi, Madam Chair.

Committee Motion 377-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act – Government Response to Recommendations, Carried
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 148)

Yeah, okay, thanks for that. Maybe we should just give a lot of that money to Arctic Energy Alliance and they can get it out the door more quickly.

But I do have another area I want to explore, Madam Chair, and that's the federal government, federal minister of northern affairs recently announced that a regional study would proceed for the area between Yellowknife and the border with Nunavut. And I'm just wondering what implication that has for any work that might be done by the department on I think it's called the Tibbitt to Lockhart Road, or whatever you're calling it these days. Thanks...

Committee Motion 377-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act – Government Response to Recommendations, Carried
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 148)

Perfect, thanks, I'm ready to go. So I think that we're how many kilometres of chip seal are we doing this year?

Committee Motion 377-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act – Government Response to Recommendations, Carried
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 148)

Thank you, Madam Chair. And thanks to the Minister. Okay, that was the first part. Second part, when are we going to start spending that money? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Committee Motion 377-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act – Government Response to Recommendations, Carried
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 148)

Thanks, Madam Chair. So if I wasn't confused before, I am now. I know that LCELF is Low Carbon Economy Leadership fund. It's federal money. So what's the issue here we can't get the projects out the door? They keep changing the program? What's the issue here? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Committee Motion 376-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act – Rebate for Carbon Tax Revenues, Carried
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 148)

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. It's kind of a weird situation that we're having some debate and discussion back and forth in this kind of forum, but I think it's an important debate and discussion that the public needs to hear, and maybe we can still reach some kind of a compromise. But, you know, I guess the other thing I want the public to know is that the ability of the Regular Members to change this bill is zero. We cannot change it in any significant way. The way that it was crafted, the way that it was put together, it's a carbon copy of what happened in the last Assembly. In the last...