Kevin O'Reilly

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. On May 10th, Canada finally removed its objector status to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and announced its unqualified support for the declaration. In ratifying its acceptance of the 46 articles of the declaration, Canada takes on responsibility to uphold and implement the wide variety of goals and actions itemized in the declaration. Canada’s action follows more than eight years after GNWT unanimously endorsed the declaration by resolution of this Assembly on February 19th, 2008. The federal announcement marks the beginning of a long...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Okay. The Growing Forward 2 funding, can anybody with the Minister or staff explain whether NFTI, the Northern Farm Training Institute, actually got any support in 2015-16 and how much? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I’ll see if I do any better on a full belly. I wanted to go back to the Mineral Industry Advisory Board. I think I heard the Premier say that there were Aboriginal members of the Chamber of Mines, and that… I’m not quite sure what the connection is to the Mineral Industry Advisory Board because I was asking about whether the department was prepared to consider broadening the membership of the Mineral Industry Advisory Board to include other interests, including Aboriginal governments and environmental organizations and so on. Can I ask again of the Minister: is the...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. That’s not what I asked. I asked if the information could be provided to the House. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. This extra $300,000, does that go to the Aboriginal Pipeline Group or does it to go to individual Aboriginal governments upon application or how does… What’s it used for? Who can access it and how? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Just so I understand it, this was some money that was given to us for devolution implementation as a pot or something, and now we’ve spent it all? Is that what I’m hearing here, Mr. Chair? Thanks.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I had a couple of questions here. I’m just wondering what’s happening with the Film Rebate Program? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Can anybody tell me how often does this Mineral Industry Advisory Board meet? Is it once, twice a year, and have they actually met in the last year? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the answer from the Minister. It’s helpful, but the fact is that we’ve got a limited pool of money to work with for housing for our own people. Now that has to be spread a little bit thinner because we’re going to be putting in housing and managing that for the RCMP. I don’t know why we’re all of a sudden now providing housing for the RCMP, but I guess that was a decision from another Minister, but we’ve got a limited pool of money to work with. Is this taking away from our capacity to provide housing for our own residents? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I don’t have any further questions.