Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks, Mr. Chair, and thanks for the explanation. Not that I don’t want to spend money on minor repair, but why is it the difference between last year, in 2015-16, and 2016-17? We just haven’t accrued the year end stuff through the accounting or what’s happening there? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. That sounds helpful. I’m just wondering though, does the department think it would be a good idea to develop some sort of criteria or way to measure the success of this program? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

I appreciate the Premier’s response on how we’re going to work together with the federal and provincial governments, but he still hasn’t answered my question about what this government is going to do to help implement this declaration. We’re one of the first sub-national governments that actually endorsed this back in 2008, so what is our government going to do to help implement this legislation, and can he commit to report back to the House, and this side of the House, how we intend to do that?

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Well, while the department may not see it as a problem as I understand from NFTI they do have a problem. They spend a lot of time and effort in trying to apply to the different regions for pots of money and there’s some administrative burden involved in filling out different application forms, trying to talk to different regional offices about status of applications and so on. I’m going to leave it at that, but I hope the department would try to find a way to make sure that we can better promote agriculture and support this institution in building capacity in the regions...

Mr. Chair, that’s the questions I have on this page. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. There’s three line items here for Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. I guess these were different contribution agreements. I just want to understand whether the funding is wound down for these arrangements, was the work actually done for each of them? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

No more questions, sorry.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I’m just trying to understand this a little bit better. The money appears in the contribution section, so to me that sort of indicates that we’re giving the money out to a third party, but what I hear the Minister saying is that the money’s actually used to support GNWT staff going to meetings. Am I misinterpreting or misunderstanding this in some way? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

It’s great to get the report in the House on the meeting that the Premier attended last week. Earlier today, though, I pointed out this Article 19 in the declaration and it reads as follows: “Consult and cooperate in good faith with Indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them.” That single article creates immense new responsibilities. I’d like to ask the Premier how GNWT intends to comply with Article 19 of the...

Thanks, Mr. Chair, I appreciate the answer. I think that’s part of the issue is, as I understand it from NFTI’s perspective, is that when they want to support work that’s actually building capacity within the regions they have to make a whole bunch of different applications to different regional offices to support people coming in to their facility and getting training and then going back and building capacity in their own regions and communities. Is there any other kind of model or approach we could consider here to help support this organization? Thanks, Mr. Chair.