Kevin O'Reilly

Mr. Chair, the other thing that was said is that proposing an increase to the basic grant for nonIndigenous students who were schooled in the territory to assist with 80 percent of the average cost of tuition, books, and supplies. Is that found in here as well? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. It's not clear who is really directing the modeling or how it's going to be done. Is it ITI alone, the Intergovernmental Council, the mining industry? Will there be any attempt to analyze past performance of the royalty regime or model what could have happened with government revenues or internal rates of return? We've got eight years now, Mr. Speaker, of real live data we could be working with. So can the Minister tell us who is directing the modeling, whether the public will get a say, and whether any modeling will be done...

It sounds like a thrashing machine. Thanks, Mr. Chair. Yeah, well, presumably there's obviously some work in here about okay, if people are not going to have IBA payments deducted from income assistance, you got some sort of way of calculating that. If people are, you know, they're not going to lose income assistance because they lose a job. There's got to be some way of kind of predicting some of these costs. Is that the kind of work that went into calculating this? And more specifically, does this amount also include the benefits for seniors that are going to be rolled into this bigger...

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. This consultant seems to have already concluded the NWT is doing just fine with regard to its competitiveness and royalty regime. Can the Minister explain what this consultant has been asked to do and when that consultant's work will be made public? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, Madam Chair. And thanks for that from the Minister. I guess yeah, I get that there's money for this but what I think you need to do is to change the messaging a little bit. Probably more than a little bit. But you want to instill some confidence and rebuild some trust here that there is more money for day home operators, for child cares, and it's coming. And some of that needs to be coming out of this budget. And you need to make that the message now, because you're restricting their ability to raise money, you're also increasing their costs. You're not telling them that you're going...

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for the response. Yeah, I actually tabled that information earlier this week in the stuff that I obtained access to information. But, you know, people shouldn't have to buy a prospecting license to be able to participate in targeted engagement.

Ironically the first item in the "what we heard" report from those secret meetings sorry, from the targeted engagement/secret meetings with the mining industry is called transparency and confidentiality. It appears that all ITI is going to do in terms of transparency is to separate resource...

Okay, no, thanks for that. Maybe I could just ask if the Minister could provide some details on the communications planning, at least to the MLAs that have correctional facilities in their ridings. I think that would be helpful for Members to get. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for a different Minister, the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment. There are only two written submissions to the fivemonth long public and targeted engagement on mining royalties and 11 other online submissions.

Can the Minister tell us more about these online submissions and provide a list of who made them? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Merci, Madam la Presidente. I move that this committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Department of Justice at this time. Mahsi, Madam Chair.

I trust this Minister so that's great. Look, thank you for that. And I trust most of the other Ministers; I love them all. But more seriously, there were to be these advisory committees set up for each of the correctional facilities, and I just wonder where we're at with those committees? Thanks, Madam Chair.